ENG315H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dorian Lord, Medical Research, Heredity
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Eng315 lecture 8: the picture of dorian gray (pt. Lord henry watched him with a subtle sense of pleasure. : pleasure of observation. His nature had developed like a flower, had borne blossoms of scarlet flame. Out of its hiding- place had crept his soul, and desire had some to meet it on the way. : comparing dorian"s development to organic plant growth gives impression of scientific observation. Wonder whether we could ever make psychology so absolute a science that each little spring of life would be revealed to us experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes : lord henry unsatisfied by moralist perspective that ethics is science used to understand human nature through evaluation of experience. Clear to him that the experimental method was the only method by which one could arrive at any scientific analysis of the passions;".
