| 单词 | heterogony of ends |
| 释义 | > as lemmasheterogony of ends 3. heterogony of ends: a principle enunciated by Wundt ( Ethik 1886), according to which the development of religion and of codes of moral and social behaviour produced results that are to be distinguished from the cause of the development and were not intended at its outset; e.g. moral customs are regarded as (unforeseen) outgrowths from religious ceremonial. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > [noun] > other theories or principles Christian Science1875 heterogony of ends1887 ethical relativism1889 amoralism1895 nomism1905 formalism1931 virtue ethics1942 1887 Mind 12 286 The most general results of the author's [sc. Wundt's] investigation are a ‘law of three stages’ of moral development and a ‘law of the heterogony of ends’. 1897 J. H. Gulliver et al. tr. W. Wundt Ethics I. 330 The law of the heterogony of ends. We mean to express by this name what is a matter of universal experience: that manifestations of will, over the whole range of man's free voluntary actions, are always of such a character that the effects of the actions extend more or less widely beyond the original motives of volition, so that new motives are originated for future actions, and again, in their turn, produce new effects. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 241/2 Each particular will is directed to particular ends, but..beyond these ends effects follow as unexpected consequences, and..this heterogony produces social effects which we call custom. < as lemmas |
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