Lectures on Moral Science: Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, BostonScholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1863 - 312 páginas |
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... caused by an act , than there is in suppos- ing that the same consciousness can embrace the reme brance of an act and the feeling caused by that remem- brance . There is doubtless at this point a real difficulty , but we think it less ...
... caused by an act , than there is in suppos- ing that the same consciousness can embrace the reme brance of an act and the feeling caused by that remem- brance . There is doubtless at this point a real difficulty , but we think it less ...
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... cause or law , which is what science seeks . If there be no cause acting uniformly , and tending to entire uniformity of results , there is no basis for science . But with such a cause , the complexity will be in proportion to the ...
... cause or law , which is what science seeks . If there be no cause acting uniformly , and tending to entire uniformity of results , there is no basis for science . But with such a cause , the complexity will be in proportion to the ...
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... cause , or predict the future . So of human conduct . Men are themselves unlike , and in endless variety . Motives are complex . The effects of education , of social position , of political institutions and of climate , are to be ...
... cause , or predict the future . So of human conduct . Men are themselves unlike , and in endless variety . Motives are complex . The effects of education , of social position , of political institutions and of climate , are to be ...
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... cause and effect , has been the want of definite terms . Science requires that terms should be used uniformly in the same sense , and that they should convey the same impression to all who use them . This can be done perfectly only in ...
... cause and effect , has been the want of definite terms . Science requires that terms should be used uniformly in the same sense , and that they should convey the same impression to all who use them . This can be done perfectly only in ...
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... cause it includes all our duties towards men as commanded by God ; and also because it implies an order of faculties , and a class of duties , as those of worship , of which mere morality could know nothing . Still , the science of duty ...
... cause it includes all our duties towards men as commanded by God ; and also because it implies an order of faculties , and a class of duties , as those of worship , of which mere morality could know nothing . Still , the science of duty ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
according action affirmation animal appetites approbation astronomy attainment beauty become benevolence blessedness body called cents character chemical affinity choice choose cloth conception condition connection conscience consciousness constitution desire of power distinction dition duty element enjoyment evil faculties FACULTIES INSTRUMENTAL faith feeling force form of activity give happiness harmony Hence higher highest holiness idea inalienable indicate individual instinct intellect involved law of limitation LECTURE liberty light lower means ment mind moral act moral affections moral character moral constitution moral nature moral philosophy moral quality moral reason moral science natural affections natural law natural right object obligation original ourselves Parliament of England particles perfect person philosophical skeptic pleasure principle question rational reach regard relation respect selfishness sense simply society sphere subordinate suppose supreme end tendency things thought tion true end truth ultimate end ural virtue virtuous volition whole wholly wrong
Passagens conhecidas
Página 121 - All murder'd; for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Página 85 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Página 98 - But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
Página 121 - And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings...
Página 121 - Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Página 291 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Página 66 - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Página 109 - And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under the heavens; this sore travail hath God given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.
Página 151 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and CHANGED the glory of the uncorruptible God into AN IMAGE made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Página 61 - These pleasures, by repetition, lose their relish. It is a property of the machine, for which we know no remedy, that the organs, by which we perceive pleasure, are blunted and benumbed by being frequently exercised in the same way.