pt. II. Ethics. pt. III. Metaphysics. pt. IV. TheodicyMacmillan, 1902 - Philosophy |
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... essence of what is equitable is that it is an amendment of the law , in those points where it fails through the generality of its language " ( Nic . Eth . V , 10 ) . ... Aristotle compares equity to the Lesbian leaden rule , which ...
... essence of what is equitable is that it is an amendment of the law , in those points where it fails through the generality of its language " ( Nic . Eth . V , 10 ) . ... Aristotle compares equity to the Lesbian leaden rule , which ...
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... essence ; and if man , having reached the term of his moral development , is truly free , it is because , being then united to God by intellectual intuition , he is himself God , and forms part of the supreme necessity , which is called ...
... essence ; and if man , having reached the term of his moral development , is truly free , it is because , being then united to God by intellectual intuition , he is himself God , and forms part of the supreme necessity , which is called ...
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... essence . Moreover , the greater a force is the more manifest is plurality in unity in it . Now the one in the many is nothing else than harmony , and from harmony beauty springs , and beauty engenders love " ( Ueber die Glückseligkeit ...
... essence . Moreover , the greater a force is the more manifest is plurality in unity in it . Now the one in the many is nothing else than harmony , and from harmony beauty springs , and beauty engenders love " ( Ueber die Glückseligkeit ...
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... essence , and morality , whose object is the development of our individual perfection , is the same thing as the cultivation of reason in us . We shall have reached moral perfection when our soul has risen to distinct perception , for ...
... essence , and morality , whose object is the development of our individual perfection , is the same thing as the cultivation of reason in us . We shall have reached moral perfection when our soul has risen to distinct perception , for ...
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... essence of the action ; this is the categorical imperative , the imperative of morality , and its formula is , " Do your duty , come what will . " The first kind of maxims are , in reality , only counsels or rules ; the categorical ...
... essence of the action ; this is the categorical imperative , the imperative of morality , and its formula is , " Do your duty , come what will . " The first kind of maxims are , in reality , only counsels or rules ; the categorical ...
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Page 48 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge ; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Page 47 - Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Page 131 - Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.
Page 131 - This belief is the necessary result of placing the mind in such circumstances. It is an operation of the soul, when we are so situated, as unavoidable as to feel the passion of love, when we receive benefits; or hatred, when we meet with injuries. All these operations are a species of natural instincts, which no reasoning or process of the thought and understanding is able either to produce or to prevent.
Page 131 - An idea assented to feels different from a fictitious idea, that the fancy alone presents to us: And this different feeling I endeavour to explain by calling it a superior force, or vivacity, or solidity, or firmness, or steadiness.
Page 252 - But what if man had eyes to see the true beauty - the divine beauty, I mean, pure and clear and unalloyed, not clogged with the pollutions of mortality and all the colours and vanities of human life - thither looking, and holding converse with the true beauty simple and divine?
Page 232 - Nature also teaches me by these sensations of pain, hunger, thirst, etc., that I am not only lodged in my body as a pilot in a vessel, but that I am very closely united to it, and so to speak so intermingled with it that I seem to compose with it one whole.
Page 204 - We have the ideas of matter and thinking, but possibly shall never be able to know, whether any mere material being thinks, or no...
Page 203 - Self is that conscious thinking thing, whatever substance made up of (whether spiritual or material, simple or compounded, it matters not), which is sensible or conscious of pleasure and pain, capable of happiness or misery, and so is concerned for itself, as far as that consciousness extends.
Page 128 - To me it is evident, for the reasons you allow of, that sensible things cannot exist otherwise than in a mind or spirit. Whence I conclude, not that they have no real existence, but that, seeing they depend not on my thought, and have an existence distinct from being perceived by me, there must be some other mind wherein they exist.