The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Band 6T. Constable and Company [etc. ], 1855 |
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... Virtue , PAGH 93 94 96 97 99 100 101 104 104 SECT . 6. Of an Ambiguity in the words Right and Wrong , Virtue and Vice , 106 SECT . 7. Of the Office and Use of Reason in the Practice of Morality , 107 II . — PHILOSOPHY OF THE ACTIVE AND ...
... Virtue , PAGH 93 94 96 97 99 100 101 104 104 SECT . 6. Of an Ambiguity in the words Right and Wrong , Virtue and Vice , 106 SECT . 7. Of the Office and Use of Reason in the Practice of Morality , 107 II . — PHILOSOPHY OF THE ACTIVE AND ...
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... Virtue . We love to be at liberty to follow our own inclinations , without being subjected to the control of a superior ; but this alone is not sufficient to our happiness . When we are led , by vicious habits , or by the force of ...
... Virtue . We love to be at liberty to follow our own inclinations , without being subjected to the control of a superior ; but this alone is not sufficient to our happiness . When we are led , by vicious habits , or by the force of ...
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... virtue , which are certainly sources of more exquisite pleasure than riches or sensuality can bestow . 169. The truth will probably be found , upon examination , to be this ; that the word selfishness , when applied to a pur- suit , has ...
... virtue , which are certainly sources of more exquisite pleasure than riches or sensuality can bestow . 169. The truth will probably be found , upon examination , to be this ; that the word selfishness , when applied to a pur- suit , has ...
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... Virtue is merely a matter of prudence , and that a sense of duty is but another name for a rational self - love , [ or an enlightened regard to our own interest . ] - 2d edit . This view of the sub- ject was far from being unnatural ...
... Virtue is merely a matter of prudence , and that a sense of duty is but another name for a rational self - love , [ or an enlightened regard to our own interest . ] - 2d edit . This view of the sub- ject was far from being unnatural ...
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... virtue to advance our worldly prosperity ; and , consequently , the great lessons of morality , which are obvious . to the capacity of all mankind , cannot have been suggested to them merely by a regard to their own interest . ( 4 ...
... virtue to advance our worldly prosperity ; and , consequently , the great lessons of morality , which are obvious . to the capacity of all mankind , cannot have been suggested to them merely by a regard to their own interest . ( 4 ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
active principles agreeable animal appear appetites argument arises Aristotle association of ideas beauty benevolent affections chap character Cicero ciples circumstances concerning conclusion conduct connexion consequence consider Cudworth Deity desire of esteem disposition doctrine edit Epicurus Essay Ethics evil express external fact favour feel fellow-creatures final cause free agency habits happiness Hobbes human nature ideas influence instance instinctive intellectual judgment justice La Rochefoucauld Liberty Lord Shaftesbury mankind ment mind misanthropy moral constitution moral distinctions moral faculty Moral Philosophy Moral Sentiments moralists motives Necessitarians Necessity notions object observations opinion origin ourselves particular passion perception philosophers Plato pleasure Pompey present principal charm principle of action quæ qualities reason regard remark render respect right and wrong says sect self-love sense of duty Soame Jenyns society species speculative supposed supposition Theory of Moral things tion truth usury vice virtue virtuous words writers
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 322 - Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury : unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury ; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury...
Seite 303 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Seite 49 - It seems a proposition, which will not admit of much dispute, that all our ideas are nothing but copies of our impressions, or, in other words, that it is impossible for us to think of anything, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.
Seite 186 - Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms ; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more.
Seite 313 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Seite 142 - I, clapping my hands cheerily together, that was I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections : — if I could not do better, I would fasten them upon some sweet myrtle, or seek some melancholy cypress to connect myself to ; — I would court their shade, and greet them kindly for their protection ; —I would cut my name upon them, and swear they were the lovliest trees throughout the desert: if their leaves wither'd, I would teach myself to mourn ; — and when they...
Seite 161 - It is pleasant to be virtuous and good; because that is to excel many others: it is pleasant to grow better; because that is to excel ourselves: it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order, within the bounds of reason and religion; because this is empire: nay, it is pleasant even to mortify and subdue our lusts; because that is victory.
Seite 186 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart ; And e'en those ills that round his mansion rise Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms...
Seite 312 - Is aught so fair In all the dewy landscapes of the Spring, In the bright eye of Hesper or the Morn, In Nature's fairest forms, is aught so fair As virtuous Friendship ? as the candid blush Of him who strives with fortune to be just ? The graceful tear that streams for others...
Seite 141 - Heav'n forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, 'Till one Man's weakness grows the strength of all.