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... moral neutrality being then the utter limit of moral achievement . This , of course , was hardly satisfactory to the rigorists . Similarly , the ascetics could and did argue that they did not deny the moral value of man's nature nor ...
... moral neutrality being then the utter limit of moral achievement . This , of course , was hardly satisfactory to the rigorists . Similarly , the ascetics could and did argue that they did not deny the moral value of man's nature nor ...
Page 168
... moral nihilism , philosophical anarchism , or pyrrhonism . In morals , declared Mandeville , there are no uni- versally valid rules of conduct . No person believes one thing but someone professes the opposite ; no nation approves one ...
... moral nihilism , philosophical anarchism , or pyrrhonism . In morals , declared Mandeville , there are no uni- versally valid rules of conduct . No person believes one thing but someone professes the opposite ; no nation approves one ...
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... moral deformity " and " defiled imagination . " The eighteenth - century commentators , taking a high moral line , maintained that Swift's misanthropy had led him to write , as James Beattie phrased it , “ a monstrous fic- tion . " It ...
... moral deformity " and " defiled imagination . " The eighteenth - century commentators , taking a high moral line , maintained that Swift's misanthropy had led him to write , as James Beattie phrased it , “ a monstrous fic- tion . " It ...
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The Beggars Opera | 14 |
The Authenticity of Anna Sewards Published Correspondence | 50 |
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