The Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers of ManJ. Bartlett, 1849 - 428 Seiten |
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... FACULTY . 96 108 117 SECT . I. The Moral Faculty not resolvable into Self - love , II . Examination of Hartley's Theory of the Formation of the Moral Sense by Association alone , III . The Moral Constitution of Human Nature not dis ...
... FACULTY . 96 108 117 SECT . I. The Moral Faculty not resolvable into Self - love , II . Examination of Hartley's Theory of the Formation of the Moral Sense by Association alone , III . The Moral Constitution of Human Nature not dis ...
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... faculty of memory ) , only afford an illustration of the little interest he took in things external , and of the preternatural and distempered en- grossment of his thoughts with the phenomena of the in- ternal world . To this ...
... faculty of memory ) , only afford an illustration of the little interest he took in things external , and of the preternatural and distempered en- grossment of his thoughts with the phenomena of the in- ternal world . To this ...
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... faculty in question to the scrutiny of reflection ; and can institute whatever experiments with respect to it may be necessary for ascertaining its general laws . It is charac- teristic of all our operations purely intellectual to leave ...
... faculty in question to the scrutiny of reflection ; and can institute whatever experiments with respect to it may be necessary for ascertaining its general laws . It is charac- teristic of all our operations purely intellectual to leave ...
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... the following enumeration of our Active Principles , which I hope will be found sufficiently distinct and comprehensive for our purposes . 1. APPETITES . 2. DESIRES . 3. AFFECTIONS . 4. SELF - LOVE . 5. THE MORAL FACULTY . 8 INTRODUCTION .
... the following enumeration of our Active Principles , which I hope will be found sufficiently distinct and comprehensive for our purposes . 1. APPETITES . 2. DESIRES . 3. AFFECTIONS . 4. SELF - LOVE . 5. THE MORAL FACULTY . 8 INTRODUCTION .
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... Faculty ( the illustration of which is the chief object of this volume ) , I purposely avoid those slighter and less important subdivisions which might be thought to savour unnecessarily of scholastic subtilty . [ For later ...
... Faculty ( the illustration of which is the chief object of this volume ) , I purposely avoid those slighter and less important subdivisions which might be thought to savour unnecessarily of scholastic subtilty . [ For later ...
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Seite 133 - Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury ; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury : that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Seite 23 - 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 306 - fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Seite 371 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, 'Nunc dimittis' when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Seite 109 - I will omit much usual declamation on the dignity and capacity of our nature ; the superiority of the soul to the body, of the rational to the animal part of our constitution ; upon the worthiness, refinement, and delicacy of some satisfactions, or the meanness, grossness, and sensuality of others ; because I hold that pleasures differ in nothing but in continuance and intensity...
Seite 211 - Mind, mind alone, (bear witness, Earth and Heaven!) The living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime...
Seite 62 - ... yet, on the other side, they are more cruel and hard-hearted (good to make severe inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon. Grave natures, led by custom, and therefore constant, are commonly loving husbands, as was said of Ulysses, ' Vetulam suam praetulit immortalitati.
Seite 85 - When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer.
Seite 7 - We must therefore glean up our experiments in this science from a cautious observation of human life, and take them as they appear in the common course of the world, by men's behaviour in company, in affairs, and in their pleasures. Where experiments of this kind are judiciously collected and compared, we may hope to establish on them a science, which will not be inferior in certainty, and will be much superior in utility to any other of human comprehension.
Seite 325 - What magic is there in the pronoun "my," that should justify us in overturning the decisions of impartial truth? My brother or my father may be a fool or a profligate, malicious, lying or dishonest. If they be, of what consequence is it that they are mine? "But to my father I am indebted for existence; he supported me in the helplessness of infancy.