Philosophy of Theism: Being the Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Edinburgh in 1895-96, Second Series |
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... moral agents in all worlds . The other is more exclusively of human concern . The former relates to the moral meaning of the environment in which each person has to play his part as a rational and responsible being , -in other words ...
... moral agents in all worlds . The other is more exclusively of human concern . The former relates to the moral meaning of the environment in which each person has to play his part as a rational and responsible being , -in other words ...
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... moral , or is it ultimately moral , spiritual , and divine ? Is the maintenance of the bodily organism the condition and measure of the continuance of each man's conscious and percipient moral personality ? These two final questions ...
... moral , or is it ultimately moral , spiritual , and divine ? Is the maintenance of the bodily organism the condition and measure of the continuance of each man's conscious and percipient moral personality ? These two final questions ...
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... moral or theistic conception of the universe of reality is accepted in these lectures as the true final con- ception , on the ground that , unless the Power universally and finally at work is morally perfect , as omnipotent goodness or ...
... moral or theistic conception of the universe of reality is accepted in these lectures as the true final con- ception , on the ground that , unless the Power universally and finally at work is morally perfect , as omnipotent goodness or ...
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... moral or religious trust and hope , which is trust and hope in the perfect goodness of the Power universally at work as the infinite Soul of the world . That the method I have adopted is what might be called anthropomorphic or ...
... moral or religious trust and hope , which is trust and hope in the perfect goodness of the Power universally at work as the infinite Soul of the world . That the method I have adopted is what might be called anthropomorphic or ...
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... morally trustworthy , and that is more or less inter- pretable by man , in an exertion of theistic or religious faith , as well as of physical faith . from a uninter- or recon- ciliation moral faith versal The way in which this final ...
... morally trustworthy , and that is more or less inter- pretable by man , in an exertion of theistic or religious faith , as well as of physical faith . from a uninter- or recon- ciliation moral faith versal The way in which this final ...
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