The Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers of Man |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 57
Page vi
... SELF - LOVE , 91 102 CHAPTER II . OF THE MORAL FACULTY . SECT . I. The Moral Faculty not resolvable into Self - Love , # 115 125 II . Examination of Hartley's Theory of the Formation of the Moral Sense by Association alone , III . The ...
... SELF - LOVE , 91 102 CHAPTER II . OF THE MORAL FACULTY . SECT . I. The Moral Faculty not resolvable into Self - Love , # 115 125 II . Examination of Hartley's Theory of the Formation of the Moral Sense by Association alone , III . The ...
Page 9
... SELF - LOVE . 5. THE MORAL FACULTY . The first three may be distinguished ( for a reason which will afterwards appear ) by the title of INSTINC- OR IMPLANTED PROPENSITIES ; the last two by the title of RATIONAL AND GOVERNING PRINCIPLES ...
... SELF - LOVE . 5. THE MORAL FACULTY . The first three may be distinguished ( for a reason which will afterwards appear ) by the title of INSTINC- OR IMPLANTED PROPENSITIES ; the last two by the title of RATIONAL AND GOVERNING PRINCIPLES ...
Page 13
... self - love , ( meaning by that word an excessive regard for his own happiness , ) for he sacrifices to the meanest gratifications all the noblest pleasures of which he is susceptible , and sacrifices to the pleas ure of the moment the ...
... self - love , ( meaning by that word an excessive regard for his own happiness , ) for he sacrifices to the meanest gratifications all the noblest pleasures of which he is susceptible , and sacrifices to the pleas ure of the moment the ...
Page 17
... self- love . But to this theory the same objection may be stated which has already been made to the attempts of some philosophers to account , in a similar way , for the origin of our appetites ; that all of these are active principles ...
... self- love . But to this theory the same objection may be stated which has already been made to the attempts of some philosophers to account , in a similar way , for the origin of our appetites ; that all of these are active principles ...
Page 18
... self - love had been aided in this particular by the principle of curiosity . Although , however , the desire of knowledge is not resolvable into self - love , it is not in itself an object of moral approbation . A person may indeed ...
... self - love had been aided in this particular by the principle of curiosity . Although , however , the desire of knowledge is not resolvable into self - love , it is not in itself an object of moral approbation . A person may indeed ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
active principles affections agreeable animal appears appetites argument arises Aristotle association of ideas atheism beauty benevolence cause cerning Chap character Cicero circumstances conceive concerning conduct conscience consequence consider constitution Cudworth desire of esteem disposition distinction doctrine Epictetus Epicurean Epicurus Essay ethics express fact fame feel fellow-creatures free agency habits happiness Hobbes human nature ideas imagination instinctive interest judgment Julius Cæsar justice La Rochefoucauld liberty Lord Kames Lord Shaftesbury mankind means ment merit metaphysical moral constitution moral faculty moral sentiments moralists motive necessary necessitarians necessity notions object observation opinion origin ourselves pain particular passion philosophers pleasure Pompey possession prescience present principle of action question reason remark respect right and wrong says Sect self-love selfish society species spect supposed tendency Theory of Moral thing tion truth usury virtue virtuous volition words writers