Manual of Supplementary References to the Course of Lectures Upon Moral Philosophy: Delivered Before the Junior Class of the South Carolina CollegeSouthern Guardian Steam Press, 1859 - 92 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
according actions acts affection agreeable appears approve Aristotle authority benevolence betwixt brutes Carneades cerning character Cicero command conception conduct considered consist constitution contrary creatures deserve desire disapprove doctrine Duns Scotus emotions Epicurean Epicurus equally eternal evil expressed feelings fixed purpose Giordano Bruno habit happiness HISTORY OF MORAL ideas ill desert injustice Jeremy Taylor judgment justice Lord Shaftesbury Malebranche manifest mankind ment merely merit and demerit misery moral faculty moral obligation Moral Philosophy moral sense motive natural law Nominalistic notions obey object ourselves Paley Paley's particular passion peculiar perception piness Plato pleasure and pain Plutarch possession presented principle pronounces prudence punishment pursuit quæ reason rectitude relations render reward right and wrong rules says Scholasticism self-love sense of duty sentiment sions Socrates Socratic irony Socratic method superiority supposed Theories of Morals things tion truth vicious virtue and vice virtuous whole William of Ockham
Passagens conhecidas
Página 46 - I am God, and there is none else ; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, " My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure...
Página 36 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the •' will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." According to which definition, the " good of mankind " is the subject ; the " will of God " the rule ; and " everlasting happiness
Página 88 - Acting, conduct, behaviour, abstracted from all regard to what is, in fact and event, the consequence of it, is itself the natural object of the moral discernment, as speculative truth and falsehood is of speculative reason.
Página 39 - ... any affection in human nature, the object and end of which is the good of another; this is itself benevolence, or the love of another. Be it ever so short, be it in ever so low a degree, or ever so unhappily confined; it proves the assertion, and points out what we were designed for, as really as though it were in a higher degree and more extensive.
Página 32 - An action, or sentiment, or character, is virtuous or vicious ; why ? because its view causes a pleasure or uneasiness of a particular kind.
Página 49 - There is a principle of reflection in men, by which they distinguish between, approve, and disapprove their own actions. We are plainly constituted such sort of creatures as to reflect upon our own nature. The mind can take a view of what passes within itself, its propensions, aversions, passions, affections, as respecting such objects, and in such degrees, and of the several actions consequent thereupon. In this survey it approves of one, disapproves of another, and towards a third is affected in...
Página 87 - It is manifest, great part of common language, and of common behaviour, over the world, is formed upon B apposition of such a moral faculty ; whether called conscience, moral reason, moral sense, or divine reason ; whether considered as a sentiment of the understanding, or as a perception of the heart, or, which seems the truth, as including both.
Página 50 - We are plainly constituted such sort of creatures as to reflect upon our own nature. The mind can take a view of what passes within itself, its propensions, aversions, passions, affections, as respecting such objects, and in such degrees ; and of the several actions consequent thereupon. In this survey it approves of one, disapproves of another, and towards a third is affected in neither of' these ways, but is quite indifferent. This principle in man, by which he approves or disapproves his heart,...
Página 49 - There are two ways in which the subject of morals may be treated. One begins from inquiring into the abstract relations of things; the other, from a matter of fact, namely, what the particular nature of man is, its several parts, their...
Página 27 - He must ascribe the same law of perception to every being to whom he ascribes thought. He cannot therefore doubt that all the relations of all things to all must have always been present to the Eternal Mind. The relations in this sense are eternal, however recent the things may be between which they subsist.