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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... reason of things , is not , indeed , a new doctrine , but it has been a good deal overlooked of late , and has never , perhaps , been fully and consistently carried out . Whether it has beez in the present instance or not others must ...
... reason of things , is not , indeed , a new doctrine , but it has been a good deal overlooked of late , and has never , perhaps , been fully and consistently carried out . Whether it has beez in the present instance or not others must ...
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... reason of our desire or aversion is , that the one object is agreeable to us , and the other disagreeable . That is to say , we are moved to the various acts of life by something pleasurable or disagreeable , some- thing desirable or ...
... reason of our desire or aversion is , that the one object is agreeable to us , and the other disagreeable . That is to say , we are moved to the various acts of life by something pleasurable or disagreeable , some- thing desirable or ...
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... a tendency towards an act , the tender cy is al · lowed by the reason , and is carried nto exo cution by the will . CHAPTER III . VIRTUOUS ACTION PRESUPPOSES THE FREEDOM OF THE ACTION PRESUPPOSES ACTIVE PRINCIPLES . 20.
... a tendency towards an act , the tender cy is al · lowed by the reason , and is carried nto exo cution by the will . CHAPTER III . VIRTUOUS ACTION PRESUPPOSES THE FREEDOM OF THE ACTION PRESUPPOSES ACTIVE PRINCIPLES . 20.
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... reason upon the nature of causation in a ra- tional agent , we can but conceive such an agent as necessarily determined by the reason , thought , or feeling which has the most influ- ence 32 FIRST PRINCIPLES OF ETHICS .
... reason upon the nature of causation in a ra- tional agent , we can but conceive such an agent as necessarily determined by the reason , thought , or feeling which has the most influ- ence 32 FIRST PRINCIPLES OF ETHICS .
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... right , without giving any reasons to show that the feeling is warranted by facts , is to teach a blind morality , and make men conscientiously obsti - nate . Persons thus guided are often right , RIGHT ACTS DICTATED BY INTELLIGENCE . 43.
... right , without giving any reasons to show that the feeling is warranted by facts , is to teach a blind morality , and make men conscientiously obsti - nate . Persons thus guided are often right , RIGHT ACTS DICTATED BY INTELLIGENCE . 43.
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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.