 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 532
...moral works of Hobbes and his school. The following passage is a fair specimen of their meaning: — ' Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of...tempers, customs, and doctrines of men are different . . . from whence arise disputes, controversies, and at last war. And therefore, so long as man is... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...and eternal ; the science of them is the only true science of moral philosophy. For that is nothing but the science of what is good and evil in the conversation and society of mankind. In a state of nature private appetite is the measure of good and evil. But all men agree that peace... | |
 | 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 1124
...shall preserve life and peace destroy h. The science of these is the true and only Moral Philosophy ; the science of what is good and evil, in the conversation...tempers, customs, and doctrines of men are different. Peace is good, and therefore also the way or means of peace, as justice, gratitude, modesty, equity,... | |
 | 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 416
...and the words have no meaning, are nonsense, are empty and confusing as the jargon of the schools : " good and evil are " names that signify our appetites...tempers, customs and doctrines of men are different." Again in a state of nature nothing is unjust — " the notions of right and wrong, "justice and injustice,... | |
 | 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 614
...attach any importance to his transcendental phraseology, for, in the very next line, he tells us that " Good and evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, costomes, and doctrines of men, are different." Presuming, therefore, that " private appetite" is the... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 600
...security.' Yet he pronounces them ' immutable and eternal ;' ' the true moral philosophy ;' which is 1 nothing else but the science of what is good and evil in the conversation and society of mankind.' (Pt. I., ch. 15.) We are, however, deceived if we attach any importance to his transcendental phraseology,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 610
...there issecurity." Yet he pronounces them " immutable and eternal;" " the true moral philosophy;" which is " nothing else but the science of what is good...evil in the conversation and society of mankind." (Pt. I., ch. 15.) We are however deceived if we attach any importance to his transcendental phraseology,... | |
 | 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 214
...shall preserve life and peace destroy it. The science of these is the true and only Moral Philosophy; the science of what is good and evil, in the conversation...tempers, customs, and doctrines of men are different. Peace is good, and therefore also the way or means of peace, as justice, gratitude, modesty, equity,... | |
 | John Stewart - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 244
...preserve life and peace destroy it. The science of these is the tpu«- and only Moral Philosophy ; the science of what is good and evil, in the conversation and society of mankind. Good snd; evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs,... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 620
...and eternal ; the science of them is the only true science of moral philosophy. For that is nothing but the science of what is good and evil in the conversation and society of mankind. In a state of nature private appetite is the measure of good and evil. But all men agree that peace... | |
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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,... 
