Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England, 1. kötetJ. W. Parker & son, 1852 - 265 oldal |
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... concerning the possibility of a passage hither . Two years afterwards appeared his Discourse concerning a new Planet , tending to prove that it is probable our Earth is one of the Planets . He was on the popular side in the III . ] 47 ...
... concerning the possibility of a passage hither . Two years afterwards appeared his Discourse concerning a new Planet , tending to prove that it is probable our Earth is one of the Planets . He was on the popular side in the III . ] 47 ...
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... concerning the Attributes and Providence of God . These works found a peculiar public who delighted in his pure and tranquil tone of thought , and his trains of religious contempla- tion , by which they found themselves elevated and ...
... concerning the Attributes and Providence of God . These works found a peculiar public who delighted in his pure and tranquil tone of thought , and his trains of religious contempla- tion , by which they found themselves elevated and ...
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... concerning right and wrong actions . It is with reluctance that I have introduced these sub- jects , even in the most transient manner : but it seemed to me that if I were not to do so , the state of the question , which I am now ...
... concerning right and wrong actions . It is with reluctance that I have introduced these sub- jects , even in the most transient manner : but it seemed to me that if I were not to do so , the state of the question , which I am now ...
62. oldal
... concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality , begins by shewing that there have been some in all ages who have maintained that Good and Evil , Just and Unjust , were not naturally and immutably so , but only by human laws and appointments ...
... concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality , begins by shewing that there have been some in all ages who have maintained that Good and Evil , Just and Unjust , were not naturally and immutably so , but only by human laws and appointments ...
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... concerning the Foundation of Morals , so far as English wri- ters are concerned in it , has brought us to the well - known name of John Locke ; who is commonly considered the author of a great revolution in the metaphysical system ...
... concerning the Foundation of Morals , so far as English wri- ters are concerned in it , has brought us to the well - known name of John Locke ; who is commonly considered the author of a great revolution in the metaphysical system ...
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224. oldal - The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. It may...
70. oldal - MORAL GOOD AND EVIL, then, is only THE CONFORMITY OR DISAGREEMENT OF OUR VOLUNTARY ACTIONS TO SOME LAW, WHEREBY GOOD OR EVIL IS DRAWN ON US, FROM THE WILL AND POWER OF THE LAW-MAKER...
29. oldal - In these western parts of the world, we are made to receive our opinions concerning the institution, and rights of commonwealths, from Aristotle, Cicero...
18. oldal - Therefore, though he that is subject to no civil law, sinneth in all he does against his conscience, because he has no other rule to follow but his own reason ; yet it is not so with him that lives in a commonwealth ; because the law is the public conscience, by which he hath already undertaken to be guided.
30. oldal - Also, men laugh at the infirmities of others by comparison wherewith their own abilities are set off and illustrated. Also men laugh at jests the wit whereof always consisteth in the elegant discovering and conveying to our minds some absurdity of another; and in this case also the passion of laughter proceedeth from the sudden imagination of our own...
205. oldal - One man says, he has a thing made on purpose to tell him what is right and what is wrong ; and that it is called a moral sense : and then he goes to work at his ease, and says, such a thing is right, and sucl. a thing is wrong ; why ? ' because my moral sense tells me it is.
17. oldal - This is the generation of that great LEVIATHAN, or rather, to speak more reverently, of that mortal god, to which we owe under the immortal God, our peace and defence.
93. oldal - Thus the wisdom of what rules, and is first and chief in Nature, has made it to be according to the private interest and good of every one to work towards the general good, which if a creature ceases to promote, he is actually so far wanting to himself, and ceases to promote his own happiness and welfare. He is on this account directly, his own enemy, nor can he any otherwise be good or useful to himself than as he continues good to society, and to that whole of which he is himself a part.