British Moralists, Being Selections from Writers Principally of the Eighteenth Century: Samuel Clarke-Discourse upon natural religion ; Balguy-Foundation of moral goodness. Part I ; Richard Price-Review of the principal questions in morals ; (Appendix) Balguy-Foundation of moral goodness. Part II ; Brown-Essays on the characteristics. Essay II. On the motives of virtue ; John Clarke (of Hull)-Foundation of morality in theory and practice ; Cudworth-Treatise concerning eternal and immutable morality ; John Gay-Fundamental principle of virtue or morality ; Hobbes-Leviathan. Of human nature ; Kames-Essays on the principles of morality and natural religion ; Locke-Essay concerning human understanding ; Mandeville-Enquiry into the origin of moral virtue ; Paly-Principles of moral and political philosophy ; Wollaston-Religion of nature delineatedSir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge Clarendon Press, 1897 |
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... consist in it , or flow from it . I must confess myself prejudiced , in some measure , against this Notion , and cannot forbear expressing my Hopes that it will not prove to be just . If the two Instincts of Affection and moral Sense be ...
... consist in it , or flow from it . I must confess myself prejudiced , in some measure , against this Notion , and cannot forbear expressing my Hopes that it will not prove to be just . If the two Instincts of Affection and moral Sense be ...
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... consist in kind Affections , then the stronger those Affections , the greater the Virtue . I presume this Con- sequence is very clear , and yet , if I mistake not , it is both con- trary to Fact , and to our Author's own Declarations ...
... consist in kind Affections , then the stronger those Affections , the greater the Virtue . I presume this Con- sequence is very clear , and yet , if I mistake not , it is both con- trary to Fact , and to our Author's own Declarations ...
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... and Diffusiveness of them . If Virtue consists only in Affection and the Effects it produces , this Consequence is unavoidable . - Supposing then that Men had the same natural Affection for their whole Species , 66 [ Part I. BALGUY .
... and Diffusiveness of them . If Virtue consists only in Affection and the Effects it produces , this Consequence is unavoidable . - Supposing then that Men had the same natural Affection for their whole Species , 66 [ Part I. BALGUY .
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... consist in it ? If it be said that it would increase it , how is that consistent either with the fore - cited Passages , or the Truth of the Case ? Not with those Passages , because Actions are there represented as less virtuous , when ...
... consist in it ? If it be said that it would increase it , how is that consistent either with the fore - cited Passages , or the Truth of the Case ? Not with those Passages , because Actions are there represented as less virtuous , when ...
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... into mere Instinct , and made to consist in it ; and even that universal Approbation which it meets with from intelligent Creatures , is ascribed to a certain Sense , and made to depend wholly on it . 68 [ Part I. BALGUY .
... into mere Instinct , and made to consist in it ; and even that universal Approbation which it meets with from intelligent Creatures , is ascribed to a certain Sense , and made to depend wholly on it . 68 [ Part I. BALGUY .
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absolutely absurd actions Affection agreeable Amen Corner amiable antecedent antecedent Law appear approve arise assert Author Beauty Benevolence BERNARD DE MANDEVILLE called cause command concerning conformity consequently considered constitution contrary creatures criterion deny desire determine Disposition duty Edition endeavour Enquiry equal esteem eternal evident evil Faculties Foundation happiness hath HENRY HOME human ideas imagine immutable indifferent instances Instinct Isaac Bayley Balfour JOHN BALGUY JOHN GAY Justice kind liberty Lond mankind manner Matter means meer Mind misery Moral Agent moral sense motive Natural Justice natures of things necessarily necessary necessity notion Numbers objects obligation observed Origin of Virtue particular passions perceive perception plainly positive laws principle produce proper proposition publick punishment rational Rational Agents Reason of Things rectitude regard Relations right and wrong rule Self-Love sensible shew suppose tion true truth understanding uneasiness universal Unjust vice Virtue virtuous
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Страница 293 - To this war of every man, against every man, this also is consequent ; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice, have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law : where no law, no injustice.
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Страница 294 - A Law of Nature (lex naturalis) is a precept or general rule found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit that by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.