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1st Series 2d Series absolute truth abstract action admirable agreeable Aristotle artist Bossuet called cause character chimera color conceive Condillac consciousness Corneille crime Descartes desire divine doctrine duty eclecticism eighteenth century elevated empiricism eternal ethics of interest evil existence expression eyes fact faculties feel foundation French genius give happiness heart history of philosophy idea ideal imagination immutable infinite intelligence judge judgment justice Kant lecture less Lesueur liberty Louis XIV Louvre Malebranche ment merit and demerit metaphysics mind Molière mysticism necessary principles necessary truths object obligation ourselves painting passion perceive perfect Pergolese person Phidias Plato pleasure Plotinus possess Poussin punishment Quatremère de Quincy reason sensation senses sensibility sentiment society Socrates sophism soul speak sublime substance supposes theodicea theory thing thought tion true unity universal and necessary Val-de-Grâce virtue whilst
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Page 279 - exact analysis can take away from remorse, without destroying it, a single one of these elements. Remorse contains the idea of good and evil, of an obligatory law, of liberty, of merit and demerit. All these ideas were already in the struggle between good and evil; they reappear in remorse. In vain interest
Page 224 - That every act contrary to justice deserves to be repressed by force, and even punished in reparation of the fault committed, and independently too of all law and all convention ; 4th, That man naturally recognizes the distinction between the merit and demerit of actions, as he
Page 152 - body to two, from two to all others, from beautiful bodies to beautiful sentiments, from beautiful sentiments to beautiful thoughts, until from thought to thought we arrive at the highest thought, which has no other object than the beautiful itself, until we end by knowing it as it is in itself.
Page 283 - Moral truths considered in themselves have no less certainty than mathematical truths. The idea of a deposit being given, I ask whether the idea of faithfully keeping it is not necessarily attached to it, as to the idea of a triangle is attached the idea that its three angles are equal to two right angles. You may