Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England, 1. kötetJ. W. Parker & son, 1852 - 265 oldal |
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... pain ; or how the amount of pleasure or pain which any action produces is to be brought into such a demonstration , are far harder ques- tions : questions which , I think , none of Locke's followers have yet solved . Accordingly , the ...
... pain ; or how the amount of pleasure or pain which any action produces is to be brought into such a demonstration , are far harder ques- tions : questions which , I think , none of Locke's followers have yet solved . Accordingly , the ...
74. oldal
... pain respectively . And as the Lockian philosophy was rapidly diffused in England , and deeply in- fused into the general tone of speculations on all subjects ; so this view of Morality was , in speculation at least , and among those ...
... pain respectively . And as the Lockian philosophy was rapidly diffused in England , and deeply in- fused into the general tone of speculations on all subjects ; so this view of Morality was , in speculation at least , and among those ...
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... pain , was pushed further and fur- ther . A principle so simple and tangible , all , it seemed , could apply . All , or at least a great number of men , ill fitted for the office of moral teachers , did actually take cou- rage and apply ...
... pain , was pushed further and fur- ther . A principle so simple and tangible , all , it seemed , could apply . All , or at least a great number of men , ill fitted for the office of moral teachers , did actually take cou- rage and apply ...
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... pain . And these per- sons sought in various quarters , and under various forms , the principles of genuine morality , and the faculties by which we apprehend those principles . One such principle , thus ascribed to human nature , was a ...
... pain . And these per- sons sought in various quarters , and under various forms , the principles of genuine morality , and the faculties by which we apprehend those principles . One such principle , thus ascribed to human nature , was a ...
97. oldal
... pains to adopt the most unexceptionable phraseology to express their views . The term Instinct , which exposed the system to such glaring objections , had not been shunned by Hutcheson . He says ( Vol . 1. p . 155 ) : " The true spring ...
... pains to adopt the most unexceptionable phraseology to express their views . The term Instinct , which exposed the system to such glaring objections , had not been shunned by Hutcheson . He says ( Vol . 1. p . 155 ) : " The true spring ...
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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.