British Moralists: Being Selections from Writers Principally of the Eighteenth Century, المجلد 1Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge Clarendon Press, 1897 - 451 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xxxix
... action ? Hume's principal argument against reason is that it excites to no action , is ' perfectly inert , ' and ... actions as means to an end it is not easy to say in what sense the end can be called ' reasonable . ' Whether there ...
... action ? Hume's principal argument against reason is that it excites to no action , is ' perfectly inert , ' and ... actions as means to an end it is not easy to say in what sense the end can be called ' reasonable . ' Whether there ...
الصفحة xl
... action , and for this purpose something more is required than that function of reason by which it makes an end or anything else an object of knowledge ... action in the sense of considerate and careful action is generally xl INTRODUCTION .
... action , and for this purpose something more is required than that function of reason by which it makes an end or anything else an object of knowledge ... action in the sense of considerate and careful action is generally xl INTRODUCTION .
الصفحة lxvii
... actions of civility and kindness in favour of the eminently virtuous arises from the reflection upon the said pleasure and pain , and the performance of those actions is visibly intended in order to avoid the pain and procure the ...
... actions of civility and kindness in favour of the eminently virtuous arises from the reflection upon the said pleasure and pain , and the performance of those actions is visibly intended in order to avoid the pain and procure the ...
الصفحة 69
... Actions , which procures Approbation , and Love toward the Actor , from those who receive no Advantage by the Action . MORAL EVIL , denotes our Idea of a contrary Quality , which excites Aversion , and Dislike toward the Actor , even ...
... Actions , which procures Approbation , and Love toward the Actor , from those who receive no Advantage by the Action . MORAL EVIL , denotes our Idea of a contrary Quality , which excites Aversion , and Dislike toward the Actor , even ...
الصفحة 71
... Actions mediately Good , or Advantageous , and others the same way Disadvantageous . ' They say indeed , ' That a benevolent Legis- lator constitutes no Actions Advantageous to the Agent by Law , but such as in their own Nature tend to ...
... Actions mediately Good , or Advantageous , and others the same way Disadvantageous . ' They say indeed , ' That a benevolent Legis- lator constitutes no Actions Advantageous to the Agent by Law , but such as in their own Nature tend to ...
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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 254 - 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 210 - 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 337 - ... say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire, but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while. The principle of utility...
الصفحة 255 - 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 255 - 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 306 - ... humble security and contentment which he had abandoned for it. It is then, in the last dregs of life, his body wasted with toil and diseases, his mind galled and ruffled by the memory of a thousand injuries and disappointments which he imagines he has met with from the injustice of his enemies, or from the perfidy and ingratitude of his friends, that he begins at last to find that wealth and greatness are mere trinkets of frivolous utility, no more adapted for procuring ease of body or tranquillity...
الصفحة 342 - 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 337 - By utility is meant that property in any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness...
الصفحة 193 - For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office; so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
الصفحة 258 - 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.