 ... the sciences capable of demonstration; wherein I doubt not but from self-evident propositions, by necessary consequences as incontestable as those in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out to any one that will apply himself...  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 112by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jacob Gould Schurman - Ethics, Evolutionary - 1903 - 292 pages
...in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out to anyone that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one as he does to the other of these sciences." What, then, are these " self-evident propositions" which constitute the foundations of our duty and... | |
 | John Grier Hibben - Enlightenment - 1910 - 340 pages
...mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out, to any one that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one...as he does to the other of these sciences." ' The ideas of God and of self, as thus conceived, cannot be consistently allowed as the foundation of demonstrable... | |
 | John Grier Hibben - Enlightenment - 1910 - 334 pages
...mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out, to any one that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one as he does to the other of these sciences." l The ideas of God and of self, as thus conceived, cannot be consistently allowed as the foundation... | |
 | James Seth - Philosophy, English - 1912 - 404 pages
...in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out to any one that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one as he does to the other of these sciences '.2 The Essay closes, as it began, with the note of the practical and the useful. The sharp limitation... | |
 | Sterling Power Lamprecht - 1918 - 186 pages
...of right and wrong might be made out, to anyone that will apply himself with the same indifferencv and attention to the one as he does to the other of these sciences."^1 Locke believed in eternal and immutable truths as much as any of his predecessors; for... | |
 | Canada - 1921 - 824 pages
...measures of right and wrong might be made out to anyone that will apply himself with the same indifference and attention to the one as he does to the other of these sciences." Spinoza, as we know, went so far as to cast his treatise on ethics in the geometrical form of propositions,... | |
 | George Stuart Fullerton - Philosophy - 1922 - 404 pages
...in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out to anyone that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one, as he does to the other of those sciences." 5 Among Locke's self-evident propositions or moral axioms we find: where there is... | |
 | Georg Cohn - Ethics - 1923 - 338 pages
...mathematicks, the measures of right and wrong might be made out, to any one that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one, as he does to the other of these sciences .... Where there is no property, there is no injustice, is a proposition as certain as any demonstration... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1928 - 436 pages
...in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out to any one that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one,...well as those of number and extension: and I cannot see why they should not also be capable of demonstration, if due methods were thought on to examine... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1928 - 428 pages
...of right and wrong might be made out to any one that will apply himself with the same indifferejicy and attention to the one, as he does to the other...well as those of number and extension: and I cannot see why they should not also be capable of demonstration, if due methods were thought on to examine... | |
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