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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... whole , nor from this in con- junction with its bearings , but from the motive , intention , or purpose apparent in the act . Very true . But what is the motive , intention , or purpose of an act ? Every act commences from within , and ...
... whole , nor from this in con- junction with its bearings , but from the motive , intention , or purpose apparent in the act . Very true . But what is the motive , intention , or purpose of an act ? Every act commences from within , and ...
الصفحة 20
... whole conception of an act , as well as of its bearings , and of the probable conditions of its success , is en tirely a matter of knowledge . It is only through knowledge , also , that we understand the acts of others . Hence knowledge ...
... whole conception of an act , as well as of its bearings , and of the probable conditions of its success , is en tirely a matter of knowledge . It is only through knowledge , also , that we understand the acts of others . Hence knowledge ...
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... whole , the premise the con- clusion , the cause the effect , the wrong the right ; and in general , ideas related by similarity , con- trast , or other ties , suggest each other . Each thought brings its related thought with it ...
... whole , the premise the con- clusion , the cause the effect , the wrong the right ; and in general , ideas related by similarity , con- trast , or other ties , suggest each other . Each thought brings its related thought with it ...
الصفحة 36
... whole case , is to act upon a wrong principle , and cannot be justified by any necessity of thus acting which one may have brought upon himself by indulgence . The wrong is antecedent to the act . Such is the necessitarian solution of ...
... whole case , is to act upon a wrong principle , and cannot be justified by any necessity of thus acting which one may have brought upon himself by indulgence . The wrong is antecedent to the act . Such is the necessitarian solution of ...
الصفحة 42
... whole work . Thus feeling stands , in the popular mind at least , as the grand director of action and the true guide of life . Indeed , many philosophers have fallen into the same error in regarding conscience as 42 . FIRST PRINCIPLES ...
... whole work . Thus feeling stands , in the popular mind at least , as the grand director of action and the true guide of life . Indeed , many philosophers have fallen into the same error in regarding conscience as 42 . FIRST PRINCIPLES ...
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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.