The Student's Manual of Moral Philosophy1870 |
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... exercise of any power or faculty may be called an Act or Action . Acts are distinguished as Elicit or Imperate , Immanent or Transitive , according as they are confined to , or extend beyond , the faculty or agent . In common speech ...
... exercise of any power or faculty may be called an Act or Action . Acts are distinguished as Elicit or Imperate , Immanent or Transitive , according as they are confined to , or extend beyond , the faculty or agent . In common speech ...
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... exercise of Intelligence and Will ; these being the faculties proper to man as a reasonable being . Actions have a nature and consequences . Reason enables us to discern the nature and consequences of actions ; Will enables us to design ...
... exercise of Intelligence and Will ; these being the faculties proper to man as a reasonable being . Actions have a nature and consequences . Reason enables us to discern the nature and consequences of actions ; Will enables us to design ...
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... exercise of body , cannot be characterized as right or wrong . Even when considered in individuo , or as done by an agent , with re- ference to an end , as walking or not walking , for the sake of amuse- ment , an action may be ...
... exercise of body , cannot be characterized as right or wrong . Even when considered in individuo , or as done by an agent , with re- ference to an end , as walking or not walking , for the sake of amuse- ment , an action may be ...
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... exercise of will . And whether he act or refrain from acting , he does so knowingly and of purpose . An Involuntary action proceeds from a principle or cause extrinsic to the agent , and may not imply knowledge nor design . When the ...
... exercise of will . And whether he act or refrain from acting , he does so knowingly and of purpose . An Involuntary action proceeds from a principle or cause extrinsic to the agent , and may not imply knowledge nor design . When the ...
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... exercise of will , is the immediate antecedent of action . But the will is called into exercise by certain influences which are brought to bear upon it . Some object of sense or of thought is contemplated . We are affected with pleasure ...
... exercise of will , is the immediate antecedent of action . But the will is called into exercise by certain influences which are brought to bear upon it . Some object of sense or of thought is contemplated . We are affected with pleasure ...
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according Adam Smith admitted agreeable Appetite approbation arise Aristotle Association Benevolence Bishop Butler bodily called cause character Cicero circumstances conformity Conscience conscious consequence constitution contemplated denote Descartes desire determine disapprobation discern disposition Dissert distinction Divine doctrine of Utility duty emotion Epicurus Essay evil exercise follow free agency give Habit human actions human nature Hume Hutcheson ideas implies impulse inferior animals influence Inquiry concerning Instinct Intellect Jonathan Edwards judge knowledge Lect Liberty Lord Kames man-the manifest means moral action moral agent Moral Faculty Moral Sense motives object obligation operation original ourselves pain Paley Passion perception Phil philosophers Plato pleasure principles of action production of happiness prompt Prudence rational Reason Rectitude Redintegration reference regard relations rience Right and Wrong Right or Wrong rule Samuel Clarke sect sensation sentiments Sir James Mackintosh Springs of Action Stewart tendency things thought tion truth views virtuous volition words
Popular passages
Page 320 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...
Page 360 - O, if this were seen, The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book and sit him down and die.
Page 132 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 220 - Calvinism presents, it cannot be denied that " such knowledge is too wonderful for us; it is high, we cannot attain unto it.
Page 173 - By motive, I mean the whole of that which moves, excites or invites the mind to volition, whether that be one thing singly, or many things conjunctly.
Page 110 - But whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calleth 'good'; and the object of his hate and aversion, 'evil'; and of his contempt 'vile' and 'inconsiderable.' For these words of good, evil, and contemptible, are ever used with relation to the person that useth them, there being nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common rule of good and evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves...
Page 381 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass: in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Page 223 - Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one 'with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.
Page 386 - ... according to the deeds done in the body, whether they have been good or evil.
Page 32 - But strew his ashes to the wind Whose sword or voice has served mankind, And is he dead, whose glorious mind Lifts thine on high ? To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die.