First Principles [of] Ethics: Designed as a Basis for Instruction in Ethical Science in Schools and CollegesA.S. Barnes and Company, 1881 - 204 من الصفحات |
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... necessarily a theory , but it is a theory pertaining to practice , and for the sake of practice . The term practical , there- fore , refers wholly to the object - matter and end of the science . Ethics , then , even in theory , is ...
... necessarily a theory , but it is a theory pertaining to practice , and for the sake of practice . The term practical , there- fore , refers wholly to the object - matter and end of the science . Ethics , then , even in theory , is ...
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... necessarily right , as it may be deficient in the end to which it is directed ; it may be wise for its end , but that end a bad one . And so in other cases . The distinction of right and wrong , then , is peculiar , if it is not indeed ...
... necessarily right , as it may be deficient in the end to which it is directed ; it may be wise for its end , but that end a bad one . And so in other cases . The distinction of right and wrong , then , is peculiar , if it is not indeed ...
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... necessarily the cause of it . - 8. Sentiments . The feelings determined more strictly by mental perceptions are usually denominated sentiments . These are such as curiosity or wonder , awakened by what we perceive around us , and ...
... necessarily the cause of it . - 8. Sentiments . The feelings determined more strictly by mental perceptions are usually denominated sentiments . These are such as curiosity or wonder , awakened by what we perceive around us , and ...
الصفحة 28
... necessarily desire - i . e . , feel the want of , crave , or tend towards . Desire is thus a blind tendency towards something which seems to us desirable , and hence a tendency towards an act . But there may be many such desires ...
... necessarily desire - i . e . , feel the want of , crave , or tend towards . Desire is thus a blind tendency towards something which seems to us desirable , and hence a tendency towards an act . But there may be many such desires ...
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... necessarily deter- mined by what at the time seems to us the most desirable ? In other words , Are we not always determined to action by what is to us the strongest motive for the time being ? And by the strongest motive is meant , the ...
... necessarily deter- mined by what at the time seems to us the most desirable ? In other words , Are we not always determined to action by what is to us the strongest motive for the time being ? And by the strongest motive is meant , the ...
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الصفحة 95 - Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear ; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
الصفحة 35 - ... when we would do good evil is present with us ; if we find a law in our members warring against the law of our mind and bringing us into captivity to the law of sin in our members; Help us, we beseech thee, O our Father.
الصفحة 170 - And with respect to restraint and confinement : whoever will consider the restraints from fear and shame, the dissimulation, mean arts of concealment, servile compliances, one or other of which belong to almost every course of vice, will soon be convinced that the man of virtue is by no means upon a disadvantage in this respect. How many instances are there in which men feel and own and cry aloud under the chains of vice with which they are enthralled, and which yet they will not shake off ! How...
الصفحة 159 - Christ that we should do to others as we would have them do to us, which a true political economy shows is the only way to the full emancipation of the masses.
الصفحة 166 - That your conscience approves of and attests to such a course of action is itself alone an obligation. Conscience does not only offer itself to show us the way we should walk in, but it likewise carries its own authority with it, that it is our natural guide— the guide assigned us by the Author of our nature. It, therefore, belongs to our condition of being; it is our duty to walk in that path, and to follow this guide, without looking about to see whether we may not possibly forsake them with...
الصفحة 30 - We have before proved," says the Apostle Paul, " both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin," ie, we have proved from the records of the court of heaven, that all have been found guilty and sentenced to die eternally. There it is written, " there is none righteous, no, not one.
الصفحة 95 - But a religion which laid down the broad rule of duty, that " all things whatsoever we would that men should do to us, we should do even so to them," could not have sanctioned slavery in any way.