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... action was really virtuous if inspired by selfish emo- tion ; and this assumption , since Mandeville considered all natural emotion fundamentally selfish , implied the ascetic position that no action was virtuous if done from natural ...
... action was really virtuous if inspired by selfish emo- tion ; and this assumption , since Mandeville considered all natural emotion fundamentally selfish , implied the ascetic position that no action was virtuous if done from natural ...
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... action according to reason is thought of even by thinkers who sometimes take a different position ) as action done despite the insistence of natural impulse and self - regarding bias , in spite of one's animal nature . Sometimes the ...
... action according to reason is thought of even by thinkers who sometimes take a different position ) as action done despite the insistence of natural impulse and self - regarding bias , in spite of one's animal nature . Sometimes the ...
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... action . After the parting , as Pamela stops for the night , she sees in ad- vance a letter which was to have been delivered to her at noon the next day , a letter which tells her that Mr. B. had been about to make honorable addresses ...
... action . After the parting , as Pamela stops for the night , she sees in ad- vance a letter which was to have been delivered to her at noon the next day , a letter which tells her that Mr. B. had been about to make honorable addresses ...
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The Authenticity of Anna Sewards Published Correspondence | 50 |
The Nature of Dr Johnsons Rationalism | 88 |
Thomas Warton and the Eighteenth Century Dilemma | 104 |
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