The Philosophy of Morals: An Investigation, Volumen1Smith, Elder and Company, 1835 |
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... unfit , ought not to be performed ; is what an agent ought not to perform ; what the performance of is wrong . A rational being then does not merely , like the in- ferior animals , feel , or know pleasure or happiness , rejoice in it ...
... unfit , ought not to be performed ; is what an agent ought not to perform ; what the performance of is wrong . A rational being then does not merely , like the in- ferior animals , feel , or know pleasure or happiness , rejoice in it ...
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... unfit to take place . That any being should be happy rather than miserable ; that , if there are more than one , a pleasure should be shared by all rather than enjoyed by one , is what we are pleased with in itself . So far the action ...
... unfit to take place . That any being should be happy rather than miserable ; that , if there are more than one , a pleasure should be shared by all rather than enjoyed by one , is what we are pleased with in itself . So far the action ...
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... unfit that any sentient being should be miserable or suffer pain . III . When an agent is under a moral obligation - ( when there is something that he ought , some- thing that he ought not to do † ) - it is fit that his state should be ...
... unfit that any sentient being should be miserable or suffer pain . III . When an agent is under a moral obligation - ( when there is something that he ought , some- thing that he ought not to do † ) - it is fit that his state should be ...
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... unfit , or less fit. * This is not properly a definition , but an exemplification of what makes the strength of a volition . But it answers the purpose of a definition . -The same remark applies to other of the definitions . * These ...
... unfit , or less fit. * This is not properly a definition , but an exemplification of what makes the strength of a volition . But it answers the purpose of a definition . -The same remark applies to other of the definitions . * These ...
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... unfit to be , is more fit or unfit to be in a great degree , or to a great extent , than in a small degree or to a small extent . VIII . An effect which is more fit than unfit , is fit ; and vice versa . * IX . In proportion as any ...
... unfit to be , is more fit or unfit to be in a great degree , or to a great extent , than in a small degree or to a small extent . VIII . An effect which is more fit than unfit , is fit ; and vice versa . * IX . In proportion as any ...
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Página 162 - Examine the crime of ingratitude, for instance, which has place wherever we observe good-will expressed and known, together with good-offices performed, on the one side, and a return of ill-will or indifference with ill-offices or neglect on the other: anatomize all these circumstances and examine, by your reason alone, in what consists the demerit or blame.
Página 56 - ... in the case of justice, where a man, taking things in a certain light, may often seem to be a loser by his integrity.
Página 163 - Enquire then, first, where is that matter of fact which we here call crime; point it out, determine the time of its existence, describe its essence or nature, explain the sense or faculty to which it discovers itself. It resides in the mind of the person who is ungrateful.
Página 56 - ... a loser by his integrity. And though it is allowed that, without a regard to property, no society could subsist; yet, according to the imperfect way in which human affairs are conducted, a sensible knave, in particular incidents, may think, that an act of iniquity or infidelity will make a considerable addition to his fortune, without causing any considerable breach in the social union and confederacy. That honesty is the best policy, may be a good general rule, but it is liable to many exceptions:...
Página 57 - If his heart rebel not against such pernicious maxims, if he feel no reluctance to the thoughts of villany or baseness, he has indeed lost a considerable motive to virtue; and we may expect, that his practice will be answerable to his speculation.
Página 45 - And, if it be not necessary, in the case of a science which we regard as the surest of all sciences, that the proportions of figures should be any thing inherent in the figures, — why should it be required, before we put confidence in morality, that right and wrong should be something existing in the individual agents ? It is not easy, indeed, to understand what is meant by such an inherence as is required in this postulate; or what other relations, actions can be supposed to have...
Página 55 - 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 all reason from interest, which influences us to the love of others...
Página 57 - But in all ingenuous natures the antipathy to treachery and roguery is too strong to be counterbalanced by any views of profit or pecuniary advantage. Inward peace of mind, consciousness of integrity, a satisfactory review of our own conduct, these are circumstances very requisite to happiness, and will be cherished and cultivated by every honest man who feels the importance of them.
Página 108 - But your hope of success depends on the drunkard's fear of ill health ; and he may always silence your argument by telling you that he loves wine more than he dreads sickness. You speak in vain of the infamy of an act to one who disregards the opinion of others ; or of its imprudence to a man of little feeling for his own future condition.
Página 45 - ... as a nation can contain in its whole wide orb of calamity ; and a distinction which is to exist while God himself exists, or at least which has been, and as we "cannot but believe will be, coeval with the race of man, cannot surely be regarded as very precarious. It is not to moral distinctions only that this objection, if it had any force, would be applicable. Equality, proportion, it might be said, in like manner, signify nothing in the objects themselves, to which they are applied, more than...