British Moralists: Being Selections from Writers Principally of the Eighteenth Century, المجلد 1Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge Clarendon Press, 1897 |
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Actions Adam Smith Advantage amiable appear appetites approve arises Aristotle Atheism Aversion Beauty beneficent Benevolence character concerning conduct conscience consequences consider Constitution contrary Creature Cudworth degree DEITY desire disapprove disposition distinct endeavour enjoyment equally Esteem Evil excite external faculty feel gratify gratitude greatest happiness Honour human nature Hutcheson idea imagine Incest instance intellectualists intention interest it-self J. M. Robertson kind Affections lence Love mankind manner means mind Misery moral philosophy moral Sense moralists motive natural Affection natural Evil object obligation observe occasion Opinion ourselves pain particular affections passions perception person pleasure Power present principle propriety publick punishment qualities rational Agents reason reflection regard relations respect right and wrong satirist Sect self-love selfish Sensation sentiments shew shou'd society sort spectator suppose sympathy Temper tendency theory thing thro tion uneasy universal utility vice Virtue virtuous vitious whole William Law
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الصفحة 253 - How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.
الصفحة 209 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
الصفحة 254 - When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm...
الصفحة 254 - As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.
الصفحة 341 - By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness.
الصفحة 257 - We sometimes feel for another, a passion of which he himself seems to be altogether incapable ; because, when we put ourselves in his case, that passion arises in our breast from the imagination, though it does not in his from the reality.
الصفحة 183 - But that is not a complete account of man's nature. Somewhat further must be brought in to give us an adequate notion of it, namely, that one of those principles of action, conscience, or reflection, compared with the rest, as they all stand together in the nature of man, plainly bears upon it marks of authority over all the rest, and claims the absolute direction of them all, to allow or forbid their gratification ; a disapprobation of reflection being in itself a principle manifestly superior to...
الصفحة 275 - And hence it is, that to feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature ; and can alone produce among mankind that harmony of sentiments and passions in which consists their whole grace and propriety.
الصفحة 177 - There are two ways in which the subject of morals may be treated. One begins from inquiring into the abstract relations of things ; the other, from a matter of fact, namely, what the particular nature of man is, its several parts, their economy or constitution; from whence it proceeds to determine what course of life it is, which is correspondent to this whole nature.
الصفحة 299 - Our continual observations upon the conduct of others, insensibly lead us to form to ourselves certain general rules concerning what is fit and proper either to be done or to be avoided.