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 xvi
... virtue. The name of Mandeville is particularly associated with the ' political ' theory of the virtues, as originating in the ' artifice of politicians,' which represents Hobbism in its most artificial and least important form. It has ...
... virtue. The name of Mandeville is particularly associated with the ' political ' theory of the virtues, as originating in the ' artifice of politicians,' which represents Hobbism in its most artificial and least important form. It has ...
الصفحة ix
... Virtue or Merit . HUTCHESON . - Inquiry concerning the original of our Ideas of Virtue or Moral Good . §§ 1-67 68-187 BUTLER . - Sermons • 188-243 Dissertation II . - Of the Nature of Virtue . 244-250 251-357 ADAM SMITH . - Theory of ...
... Virtue or Merit . HUTCHESON . - Inquiry concerning the original of our Ideas of Virtue or Moral Good . §§ 1-67 68-187 BUTLER . - Sermons • 188-243 Dissertation II . - Of the Nature of Virtue . 244-250 251-357 ADAM SMITH . - Theory of ...
الصفحة xiii
... virtue is ' the political offspring which flattery begot upon pride ' may be true of some men and some virtue , but if asserted of all men and all virtue becomes literally preposterous ; and , lastly , it is more profit- able to take ...
... virtue is ' the political offspring which flattery begot upon pride ' may be true of some men and some virtue , but if asserted of all men and all virtue becomes literally preposterous ; and , lastly , it is more profit- able to take ...
الصفحة xvi
... virtue . The name of Mandeville is particularly associated with the ' political theory of the virtues , as originating in the artifice of politicians , ' which represents Hobbism in its most artificial and least important form . It has ...
... virtue . The name of Mandeville is particularly associated with the ' political theory of the virtues , as originating in the artifice of politicians , ' which represents Hobbism in its most artificial and least important form . It has ...
الصفحة xvii
... virtue . The British moralists , whether sceptical or otherwise , ask , what is this reality ? what is the meaning of the right and wrong , good and evil , to which the evil - liver pays the tribute of hypocrisy , that is , what does ...
... virtue . The British moralists , whether sceptical or otherwise , ask , what is this reality ? what is the meaning of the right and wrong , good and evil , to which the evil - liver pays the tribute of hypocrisy , that is , what does ...
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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.