The Elements of Moral ScienceCooke and Company, 1835 - 448 עמודים "This book presents to the public a new treatise upon moral science and moral philosophy. Being designed for the purposes of instruction, its aim is, to be simple, clear, and purely didactic. I have rarely gone into extended discussion, but have contented myself with the attempt to state the moral law, and the reason of it, in as few and as comprehensive terms as possible"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved) |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 82
עמוד 7
... Suppose a being so constituted as to be able to effect changes without the use of means ; action then would not involve the neces- sity of intelligence , in the sense in which it is here ex- plained . All that would be necessary would ...
... Suppose a being so constituted as to be able to effect changes without the use of means ; action then would not involve the neces- sity of intelligence , in the sense in which it is here ex- plained . All that would be necessary would ...
עמוד 8
... Suppose a brute and a man both to perform the same action ; as , for instance , suppose the brute to kill its offspring , and the man to murder his child . Are these actions of the same character ? Do we entertain the same feelings ...
... Suppose a brute and a man both to perform the same action ; as , for instance , suppose the brute to kill its offspring , and the man to murder his child . Are these actions of the same character ? Do we entertain the same feelings ...
עמוד 15
... suppose our notion of right and wrong to be a modification in this lat- ter sense . Then this notion either enters into the original elements of the compound idea , or it does not . If it does , then it is already present ; and this ...
... suppose our notion of right and wrong to be a modification in this lat- ter sense . Then this notion either enters into the original elements of the compound idea , or it does not . If it does , then it is already present ; and this ...
עמוד 19
... suppose be- cause used in the first of these senses . It will then mean , that we are so constituted , that the idea of the greatest amount of happiness , is always the stated antecedent to the idea of right , or moral obligation . Now ...
... suppose be- cause used in the first of these senses . It will then mean , that we are so constituted , that the idea of the greatest amount of happiness , is always the stated antecedent to the idea of right , or moral obligation . Now ...
עמוד 20
... Suppose we could never arouse them to duty , until we had produced a conviction of the greatest amount of happiness which would result from piety , would a single one of them ever listen to us long enough , to understand our doctrine ...
... Suppose we could never arouse them to duty , until we had produced a conviction of the greatest amount of happiness which would result from piety , would a single one of them ever listen to us long enough , to understand our doctrine ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
action adultery affection amount of happiness arise asserted become benevolence bound BROWN UNIVERSITY CHAPTER character child civil society command concubinage condition conscience consequences consider constitution contract course of conduct created Creator crime cultivation derived desire duty evident evil exercise existence fact faculty feeling FRANCIS WAYLAND gratification greatest amount guilty Hence human impulse Inasmuch individual inflict injury innocent intellectual intended interfere knowledge labor law of chastity liberty limit manifest manifestly manner marriage means of happiness mode moral character moral constitution moral law moral obligation moral quality motives nations natural religion neighbor obedience obey object observed Old Testament ourselves pain parent party passion person pleasure prayer precept present principle produce punishment reason relation remarked render respect result revelation right of property Sabbath Scriptures self-love slavery spect suppose teach tendency thing tion truth universal unless vidual violation virtue whole wicked wrong
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 162 - Clouds and darkness are round about him : Righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
עמוד 181 - In it thou shalt do no manner of work ; thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it.
עמוד 333 - Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
עמוד 351 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
עמוד 54 - Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
עמוד 93 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
עמוד x - Be not deceived ; God is not mocked : whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
עמוד 171 - Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone ? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent ? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him...
עמוד 404 - I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
עמוד 76 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not : if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.