 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1803 - 734 pages
...is outweighed by the fole confideration of their being our duty. This maxim, therefore, of Mr HUME, That no action can be virtuous or morally good, unlefs there be fome motive to produce it diftinct from its morality, is fo far from being undoubtedly cdly true, that... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1815 - 474 pages
...a tendeney to subvert all faith and fair dealing among mankind. In the third volume of the Treatise of Human Nature, p. 40. he lays it down as an undoubted maxim, that no aetion ean be virtuous or morally good, unless there be, in human nature, some motive to produee it,... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1822 - 322 pages
...faith and fair dealing among mankind. in the third volume of the Treatise of Human Nature, p. 40. lie lays it down as an undoubted maxim, that no action can be virtuous or morally good, unless there be, in human nature, some motive to produce it, distinct from its morality. Let us apply... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1826 - 584 pages
...antecedent principles of humanity, which is meritorious and laudable. In short, it may be established as an undoubted maxim, that no action can be virtuous, or morally good, unless there be in human nature some motive to produce it distinct from the sense of its morality.... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Act (Philosophy). - 1827 - 706 pages
...a tendency to subvert nil faith and fair dealing among mankind. In the third volume of the Treatise of Human Nature, p. 40, he lays it down as an undoubted...maxim, That no action can be virtuous or morally good unless there be, in human nature, some motive to produce it, distinct from its morality. Let us apply... | |
 | George Ramsay - Ethics - 1843 - 620 pages
...any reason beyond, for the desirability of happi11 Hume has said, " In short, it may be established as an undoubted maxim, that no action can be virtuous or morally good, unless there be in human nature some motive to produce it, distinct from the sense of its morality."... | |
 | Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart - Free will and determinism - 1843 - 632 pages
...Hume, in the section already quoted, tells us with great assurance, " In short, it may be established as an undoubted maxim, that no action can be virtuous or morally good, unless there be in human nature some motive to produce it distinct from the sense of its morality."... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 572 pages
...antecedent principles of humanity, which is meritorious and laudable. In short, it may be established as an undoubted maxim, that no action can be virtuous, or morally good, unless there be in human nature some motive to produce it distinct from the sense of its morality.... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1863 - 552 pages
...consider the speculations of that author with regard to contractsIn the third volume of the " Treatise of Human Nature," p. 40, he lays it down as an undoubted...maxim, That no action can be virtuous or morally good, unless there be in human nature, some motive to produce it, distinct from its morality. Let us apply... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1863 - 542 pages
...in the section already quoted, tells us with great assurance — " In abort, it may be established as an undoubted maxim, that no action can be virtuous or morally good, unless there be in human nature some motive to produce it, distinct from the sense of its morality."... | |
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In short, it may be established as an undoubted maxim that no action can be virtuous, or morally good, unless there be in human nature some motive to produce it, distinct from the sense of its morality. 
