The Elements of Moral ScienceCooke and Company, 1835 - 448 páginas |
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... Is it an exercise of the judgment ? 16 Is it derived from association ? 17 Is it derived from the idea of the greatest amount of happiness ? General view of the subject 8888 18 26 CHAPTER SECOND . - CONSCIENCE , OR THE MORAL SENSE.
... Is it an exercise of the judgment ? 16 Is it derived from association ? 17 Is it derived from the idea of the greatest amount of happiness ? General view of the subject 8888 18 26 CHAPTER SECOND . - CONSCIENCE , OR THE MORAL SENSE.
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... amount effected , but of the amount intended . Intention may be wrong in various ways . As , for instance , first , where we intend to injure another , as in cruelty , malice , revenge , deliberate slander . Here , however , it may be ...
... amount effected , but of the amount intended . Intention may be wrong in various ways . As , for instance , first , where we intend to injure another , as in cruelty , malice , revenge , deliberate slander . Here , however , it may be ...
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... amount of happiness ? Thus , it is said that our notion of right and wrong is derived from our idea of productiveness of happiness , or , in other words , that an action is right or wrong because it is productive of the greatest amount ...
... amount of happiness ? Thus , it is said that our notion of right and wrong is derived from our idea of productiveness of happiness , or , in other words , that an action is right or wrong because it is productive of the greatest amount ...
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... amount of happiness , suppose because to be 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 ...
... amount of happiness , suppose because to be 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 ...
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... amount of happiness ? Suppose we could never arouse them to duty , until we had produced a conviction of the amount of happiness which would result to the universe from piety , would a single one of them ever listen to us long enough to ...
... amount of happiness ? Suppose we could never arouse them to duty , until we had produced a conviction of the amount of happiness which would result to the universe from piety , would a single one of them ever listen to us long enough to ...
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action affection amount of happiness Apostle Paul asserted become benevolence blessings bound BROWN UNIVERSITY character child civil society command concubinage condition conscience consequences consider contrary course of conduct created Creator crime cultivation Deity derived desire duty evident evil exercise existence fact faculty feeling gratification greatest amount guilt Hence human impulse Inasmuch individual inflict injury innocent intellectual intended 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 Mosaic law motives nations natural religion necessity obedience obey object observed Old Testament ourselves pain parent party passion perfect pleasure prayer precept present principles produce punishment racter reason relation remarked render respect result revelation Sabbath Scriptures self-love slavery spect suppose teach tendency Testament thing tion truth universal unless vidual violation virtue whole wrong
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Página 10 - Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his Eternal Power and God-head, so that they are without excuse...
Página 331 - Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives, while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Página 179 - Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name 'in vain. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...
Página 269 - Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Página 406 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes ; 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Página 139 - He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Página 320 - Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: But I say unto you, Swear not at all...
Página 30 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come.
Página 31 - To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips. He's here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host. Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Página 91 - 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...