The Present Conflict of Ideals; a Study of the Philosophical Background of the World War
The Present Conflict of Ideals; a Study of the Philosophical Background of the World War
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Now our Darwinian view would virtually assert that such a change has no relation to value.
The form of group competition does not signify, but only the degree of success. In other words — Rome conquering the world by force of arms, is not less good than a Greece conquering it by force of ideas, or a Judsa conquering it by the force of religious sentiment. Indeed this view derives from its biological origins a strong tendency to favor the ruder and more violent forms of struggle, as being more u...nmistakably biological.
it^ Digitized by Google f 146 THE PRESENT CONFLICT OF TOEALS Unless we bear these things in mind we shall be misled by the specious plausibility of this ideal of might, a plausi- bility derived from the impulse to hero-worship, and from our practice of using terms like "strong," "powerful," "mighty," as impljdng completeness and nobility. The r essential principle of the Darwinian moralists is that of \ struggle; and the tjrpe of the survivor in struggle is as I high or as low as is the form of the struggle in which they lengage.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Now our Darwinian view would virtually assert that such a change has no relation to value.
The form of group competition does not signify, but only the degree of success. In other words — Rome conquering the world by force of arms, is not less good than a Greece conquering it by force of ideas, or a Judsa conquering it by the force of religious sentiment. Indeed this view derives from its biological origins a strong tendency to favor the ruder and more violent forms of struggle, as being more u...nmistakably biological.
it^ Digitized by Google f 146 THE PRESENT CONFLICT OF TOEALS Unless we bear these things in mind we shall be misled by the specious plausibility of this ideal of might, a plausi- bility derived from the impulse to hero-worship, and from our practice of using terms like "strong," "powerful," "mighty," as impljdng completeness and nobility. The r essential principle of the Darwinian moralists is that of \ struggle; and the tjrpe of the survivor in struggle is as I high or as low as is the form of the struggle in which they lengage.
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