 | 1840 - 456 páginas
...love or hatred of the observer. Ibid. p. 172. Having remov'd the false springs of virtuous actions let us next establish the true one, viz. some determination....nature to study the good of others, or some instinct, anteeedent to all reason from interest, which influences us to the love öl others, even a» the jnoral... | |
 | Alexander Smith (M.A.) - 1835 - 750 páginas
...of parental, or filial affection. To say then that we are under a moral obligation, they just take to be synonymous with this, that such impulses and...all reason from interest, which influences us to the lore of others : even as the moral sense determines us to' approve the actions which flow from this... | |
 | Johann Eduard Erdmann - 1840 - 476 páginas
...love or hatred of the observer. Ibid. p. 172. Having remov'd the false springs of virtuous actions let us next establish the true one, viz. some determination of our nature to study the good of others, or soni< instinct, antecedent to all reason from interest, which influences us to the love of others,... | |
 | William Whewell - 1852 - 316 páginas
...objections, had not been shunned by Hutcheson. He says (Vol. ip 155): " The true spring of virtue is some determination of our nature to study the good of others, or some instinct which influences us to the love of others, as the moral sense determines us to approve" certain actions.... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - 1868 - 178 páginas
...one side, nor from the Pleasure of Virtue on the other, Hutcheson next proceeds to show that it is ' Some Determination of our nature to study the good...others; or some instinct antecedent to all reason (reasoning) from interest which influences us to the love of others, even as the Moral sense determines... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - 1873 - 338 páginas
...sentiment or thought which comes before it." " The true spring of Virtue," observes Hutcheson, " is some determination of our nature to study the good of others, or some instinct which influences us to the love of others, as the moral sense determines our approval." The phrase... | |
 | 1926 - 1010 páginas
...with the original nature of an unformed man. Eg, he wrote that the springs of virtuous actions lie "in some determination of our nature to study the good...Interest, which influences us to the love of others." (Quoted from Selby-Bigge 's British Moralists, I, 94.) natural grace. To the deists (of whom Shaftesbury... | |
 | Gerald R. McDermott - 1992 - 220 páginas
...human nature is inherently benevolent and opposed to selfish egoism.28 As Hutcheson put it, there is a "determination of our nature to study the good of...from interest, which influences us to the love of others."29 Shaftesbury wrote that "mutual succour, and the rest of this kind" are naturally altruistic.... | |
 | Terry Eagleton - 1995 - 378 páginas
...County Down in 1694; I write in the year of the three hundredth anniversary of his birth. Moral Good, is 'some instinct, antecedent to all reason from interest, which influences us to the love of others'4 - the mark, in short, of the radical anteriority or transcendentality within us of a disinterested... | |
 | Michael B. Gill - 2006 - 266 páginas
...that we approve of actions as virtuous when we apprehend that they proceed from benevolence, or an "Instinct, antecedent to all Reason from Interest, which influences us to the Love of others" (Beauty and Virtue 155). The egoistic explanation is simply not credible. Hutcheson next attacks the... | |
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Having removed,"" says Dr. Hutcheson, " these falsely supposed springs of those actions which are counted virtuous, let us next establish the true one, viz. some determination of our nature to study the good of others ; or some instinct, antecedent to... 