 ... 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
 | Gopal Sreenivasan - Philosophy - 1995 - 173 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. (IV.iii.18)35 The particular details of how this project was meant to be carried out (a task which... | |
 | Preben Mortensen - Art - 1997 - 230 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" (Essay, 4.3.18). 2. "[V]olumes writ of navigation and voyages, theories and stories of zones and tides... | |
 | Michael J. White - Philosophy - 1997 - 230 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.16 Thus Locke is led, famously, to conclude that "Morality is the proper Science, and Business... | |
 | Tommy Lee Lott - Philosophy - 1998 - 388 pages
...measures of right and wrong might be made out, to any one that will apply himself to the same Indifference and Attention to the one, as he does to the other of these Sciences."2 If we assume that the self-evident propositions that form the basis of moral science include... | |
 | Margaret Atherton - Philosophy - 1999 - 288 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.17 It is worth underlining the fact that a central feature of Locke's ethics was the belief... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - Philosophy - 1999 - 452 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'.2 Clearly, Locke thought that by considering the nature of God and that of man and... | |
 | Y. Masih - Philosophy - 1999 - 606 pages
...of right and wrong might be made out, to any one that will apply himself _with the same indifference and attention to the one as he does to the other of these sciences.1 5.20. Knowledge of Co-existence Locke gradually now makes transition from the abstract ideas... | |
 | J. B. Schneewind - History - 2003 - 696 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... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - Philosophy - 2003 - 452 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'.2 Clearly, Locke thought that by considering the nature of God and that of man and... | |
 | Thomas Fleming - Philosophy - 2004 - 280 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. Morality, concedes Locke, may be a more complex matter than geometry, but this is partly owing to the... | |
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