The Elements of Moral ScienceCooke and Company, 1835 - 448 pagina's "This book presents to the public a new treatise upon moral science and moral philosophy. Being designed for the purposes of instruction, its aim is, to be simple, clear, and purely didactic. I have rarely gone into extended discussion, but have contented myself with the attempt to state the moral law, and the reason of it, in as few and as comprehensive terms as possible"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved) |
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Pagina 29
... motive , than that this affection is due to him because he is God , and our God , is not piety . child say , I will obey my father , because it is for the happi- ness of the family ; what the character of this action would be , I am not ...
... motive , than that this affection is due to him because he is God , and our God , is not piety . child say , I will obey my father , because it is for the happi- ness of the family ; what the character of this action would be , I am not ...
Pagina 30
... motive . This will be evident , if we substitute for the love of the happi- ness of the family , the love of money , or ... motives , no one of which has any real respect to God himself . My view of this subject , in few words , is as ...
... motive . This will be evident , if we substitute for the love of the happi- ness of the family , the love of money , or ... motives , no one of which has any real respect to God himself . My view of this subject , in few words , is as ...
Pagina 39
... motive to action , as we do passion , or self - love , or any other motive power . If we are asked , why we performed any action , we reply , we acted thus , because it gratified our desires , or be- cause it was for our interest upon ...
... motive to action , as we do passion , or self - love , or any other motive power . If we are asked , why we performed any action , we reply , we acted thus , because it gratified our desires , or be- cause it was for our interest upon ...
Pagina 46
... motive for choice , that the one is more pleasant to him than the other . But when our impulses differ , in authority , we feel obliged to neglect the difference in strength of impulse , and to obey that , be it ever so weak , which is ...
... motive for choice , that the one is more pleasant to him than the other . But when our impulses differ , in authority , we feel obliged to neglect the difference in strength of impulse , and to obey that , be it ever so weak , which is ...
Pagina 71
... motives partly good , and partly bad , labor to obtain a clear view of each , and of the circumstances which led you ... motive of which you now disapprove . 3. If conscience convicts you of having acted wrongly . RULES FOR MORAL CONDUCT ...
... motives partly good , and partly bad , labor to obtain a clear view of each , and of the circumstances which led you ... motive of which you now disapprove . 3. If conscience convicts you of having acted wrongly . RULES FOR MORAL CONDUCT ...
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Elements of Moral Science: Abridged, and Adapted to the Use of Schools and ... Francis Wayland Volledige weergave - 1848 |
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action adultery affection amount of happiness arise asserted become benevolence bound BROWN UNIVERSITY CHAPTER character child civil society command concubinage condition conscience consequences consider constitution contract course of conduct created Creator crime cultivation derived desire duty evident evil exercise existence fact faculty feeling FRANCIS WAYLAND gratification greatest amount guilty Hence human impulse Inasmuch individual inflict injury innocent intellectual intended interfere knowledge labor law of chastity liberty limit manifest manifestly manner marriage means of happiness mode moral character moral constitution moral law moral obligation moral quality motives nations natural religion neighbor obedience obey object observed Old Testament ourselves pain parent party passion person pleasure prayer precept present principle produce punishment reason relation remarked render respect result revelation right of property Sabbath Scriptures self-love slavery spect suppose teach tendency thing tion truth universal unless vidual violation virtue whole wicked wrong
Populaire passages
Pagina 162 - Clouds and darkness are round about him : Righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
Pagina 181 - In it thou shalt do no manner of work ; thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it.
Pagina 333 - Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Pagina 351 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Pagina 54 - Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Pagina 93 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Pagina x - Be not deceived ; God is not mocked : whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Pagina 171 - Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone ? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent ? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him...
Pagina 404 - I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Pagina 76 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not : if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.