A Mortal Antipathy
A Mortal Antipathy

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-15

Total Pages: 234

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"A Mortal Antipathy" is a medical fiction novel by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Maurice Kirkword, Esq. a young gentle man had rented some rooms of a building in the Stoughton University community. But his reclusive ways and vague answers soon piques the curiosity of the community. A rumour soon developed that Maurice Kirkwood was the subject of a strange, mysterious, unheard-of antipathy to something, nobody knew what; and the whole neighborhood naturally resolved itself into an unorganized committee of investigation...

Sympathy and Antipathy
Sympathy and Antipathy

Author: James Allan

Publisher: Dartmouth Publishing Company

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 328

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The search for a moral standard of right and wrong which is external to any particular evaluator, thus escaping subjectivity, has a long history. Jeremy Bentham, attempting to find such a standard, opted for utilitarianism, which at least provided an inter-subjective standard of right and wrong - everything else collapses into the purely subjective principle of sympathy and antipathy. The author of this book shares Bentham's views about sympathy and antipathy and shows that the principle is alive and well in legal philosophy today