The Philosophy of the Practical: Economic and Ethic

by Benedetto Croce

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SECOND PART

THE PRACTICAL ACTIVITY IN ITS SPECIAL FORMS

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FIRST SECTION

THE TWO PRACTICAL FORMS: ECONOMIC AND ETHIC

[I] 309

DISTINCTION OF THE TWO FORMS IN THE PRACTICAL CONSCIOUSNESS

The utilitarian or economic form, and the moral or ethical form—Insufficiency of the descriptive and psychological distinction—Deduction and necessity of integrating it with induction—The two forms as a fact of consciousness—The economic form—The ethical form—Impossibility of eliminating them—Confirmations in fact.

[II] 323