The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: The philosophy of the active and moral powers of man ... To which is prefixed part second of the Outlines of moral philosophy. 1855Thomas Constable and Company; Hamilton, Adams, & Company, London, 1855 |
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... facts ; and gives us a ready command of a great stock of knowledge to which we had not access before . The desire of power , therefore , comes , in the progress of reason and experience , to act as an auxiliary to our instinctive desire ...
... facts ; and gives us a ready command of a great stock of knowledge to which we had not access before . The desire of power , therefore , comes , in the progress of reason and experience , to act as an auxiliary to our instinctive desire ...
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... facts , or some of them to be resolvable into other facts more general , they are equally to be regarded as constituent parts of human nature ; and , upon either supposition , we have equal reason to admire the wisdom with which that ...
... facts , or some of them to be resolvable into other facts more general , they are equally to be regarded as constituent parts of human nature ; and , upon either supposition , we have equal reason to admire the wisdom with which that ...
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... fact ) between that regard which every rational being must necessarily have to his own happiness , and those benevolent affections which attach us to our fellow - creatures- [ Piλavría . ] — 1st edit . The similarity , too , between the ...
... fact ) between that regard which every rational being must necessarily have to his own happiness , and those benevolent affections which attach us to our fellow - creatures- [ Piλavría . ] — 1st edit . The similarity , too , between the ...
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... facts alluded to in the last paragraph of the fore- going section , have led some philosophers to conclude , that Virtue is merely a matter of prudence , and that a sense of duty is but another name for a rational self - love , [ or an ...
... facts alluded to in the last paragraph of the fore- going section , have led some philosophers to conclude , that Virtue is merely a matter of prudence , and that a sense of duty is but another name for a rational self - love , [ or an ...
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... facts which have been alleged to prove that the moral judgments of mankind are entirely factitious , will be found , upon examination , to be either the effects of mis- representation ; or to lead to a conclusion directly the reverse of ...
... facts which have been alleged to prove that the moral judgments of mankind are entirely factitious , will be found , upon examination , to be either the effects of mis- representation ; or to lead to a conclusion directly the reverse of ...
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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 ideas influence instance instinctive intellectual judgment justice La Rochefoucauld Liberty Lord Shaftesbury mankind means ment mind moral constitution moral distinctions moral faculty Moral Philosophy Moral Sentiments moralists motives Necessitarians Necessity notions object observations opinion origin ourselves particular passage 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
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Seite 184 - 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; 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 211 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise : Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
Seite 241 - 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 130 - My drowsed sense; untroubled, though I thought I then was passing to my former state Insensible, and forthwith to dissolve...
Seite 322 - ... nee erit alia lex Romae, alia Athenis, alia nunc, alia posthac, sed et omnes gentes et omni tempore una lex et sempiterna et immutabilis continebit, unusque erit communis quasi magister et imperator omnium deus, ille legis huius inventor, disceptator, lator; cui qui non parebit, ipse se fugiet ac naturam hominis aspernatus hoc ipso luet maximas poenas, etiamsi cetera supplicia, quae putantur, effugerit...
Seite 139 - 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.
Seite 47 - 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 175 - ... yet, on the other side, they are more cruel and hardhearted (good to make severe inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon.
Seite 211 - Search then the ruling passion: there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
Seite 159 - 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 mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory ; it is pleasant to command our appetites...