Notes Expository and Critical on Certain British Theories of MoralsEdmonston & Douglas, 1868 - 156 من الصفحات |
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... determine justly the relation which Virtue has to Piety ; the first being not complete but in the latter ; since where the latter is wanting there can neither be the same benignity , firmness , nor con- stancy ; the same good composure ...
... determine justly the relation which Virtue has to Piety ; the first being not complete but in the latter ; since where the latter is wanting there can neither be the same benignity , firmness , nor con- stancy ; the same good composure ...
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... determined the end of man , and wherein consists the Right or Virtuous in Action , he only slightly touches on the question of the faculty by which we discriminate this ' Right , ' and still more slightly on the authority which belongs ...
... determined the end of man , and wherein consists the Right or Virtuous in Action , he only slightly touches on the question of the faculty by which we discriminate this ' Right , ' and still more slightly on the authority which belongs ...
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... determined to a sense or perception of pleasure , or of immediate good or beauty , in certain acts and dispositions as such , whether in others or ourselves , apart from any consequent advantage ; but that our motive in per- forming ...
... determined to a sense or perception of pleasure , or of immediate good or beauty , in certain acts and dispositions as such , whether in others or ourselves , apart from any consequent advantage ; but that our motive in per- forming ...
الصفحة 28
... place of their performance , is untrue in fact ; for did our advantage , interest , or natural good determine our feeling , the successful tyrant would engage our affection , not un- successful 28 Francis Hutcheson .
... place of their performance , is untrue in fact ; for did our advantage , interest , or natural good determine our feeling , the successful tyrant would engage our affection , not un- successful 28 Francis Hutcheson .
الصفحة 32
... determines us to be thus affected , and approves our being so . ' In like manner , the pleasant virtuous affec- tions are not chosen by us because they are pleasant , but they arise simply on seeing their objects . True , if we have ...
... determines us to be thus affected , and approves our being so . ' In like manner , the pleasant virtuous affec- tions are not chosen by us because they are pleasant , but they arise simply on seeing their objects . True , if we have ...
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الصفحة 4 - The desires and other passions of man are in themselves no sin. No more are the actions that proceed from those passions, till they know a law that forbids them; which, till laws be made, they cannot know: nor can any law be made till they have agreed upon the person that shall make it.
الصفحة 77 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
الصفحة 2 - Sudden glory' is the passion which maketh those 'grimaces' called 'laughter'; and is caused either by some sudden act of their own that pleaseth them, or by the apprehension of some deformed thing in another by comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves.
الصفحة 4 - For moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different...
الصفحة 3 - ... another; yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man, and man, is not so considerable, as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit, to which another may not pretend, as well as he.
الصفحة 101 - But there is no known Epicurean theory of life which does not assign to the pleasures of the intellect, of the feelings and imagination, and of the moral sentiments, a much higher value as pleasures than to those of mere sensation. It must be admitted...
الصفحة 107 - I must again repeat, what the assailants of utilitarianism seldom have the justice to acknowledge, that the happiness which forms the utilitarian standard of what is right in conduct is not the agent's own happiness, but that of all concerned; as, between his own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator.
الصفحة 61 - ... you cannot form a notion of this faculty, conscience, without taking in judgment, direction, superintendency. This is a constituent part of the idea, that is, of the faculty itself : and to preside and govern, from the very economy and constitution of man, belongs to it. Had it strength, as it has right ; had it power, as it has manifest authority, it would absolutely govern the world.
الصفحة 1 - But whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calleth good, and the object of his hate and aversion, evil, aud of his contempt, vile and inconsiderable.
الصفحة 116 - This firm foundation is that of the social feelings of mankind; the desire to be in unity with our fellow-creatures, which is already a powerful principle in human nature, and happily one of those which tend to become stronger even without express inculcation, from the influences of advancing civilization.