Essays on the Active Powers of Man: By Thomas Reid, ...John Bell, and G. G. J. & J. Robinson, London, 1788 - 493 pàgines |
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... LIBERTY OF MORAL AGENTS . CHAP . I. The Notions of Moral Liberty and Neceffity ftated , 267 2. Of the Words Caufe and Effect , Action , and Active Power , 3. Caufes of the Ambiguity of thofe Words , 275 . 281 CHAP . CHAP . 4. Of the ...
... LIBERTY OF MORAL AGENTS . CHAP . I. The Notions of Moral Liberty and Neceffity ftated , 267 2. Of the Words Caufe and Effect , Action , and Active Power , 3. Caufes of the Ambiguity of thofe Words , 275 . 281 CHAP . CHAP . 4. Of the ...
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... Liberty confiftent with Government , 6. First Argument for Liberty , 7. Second Argument , 8. Third Argument , 9. Of Arguments for Neceffity , 10. The fame Subject , 11. Of the Permiffion of Evil , Page 291 302 312 323 329 333 346 355 ...
... Liberty confiftent with Government , 6. First Argument for Liberty , 7. Second Argument , 8. Third Argument , 9. Of Arguments for Neceffity , 10. The fame Subject , 11. Of the Permiffion of Evil , Page 291 302 312 323 329 333 346 355 ...
Pàgina 77
... liberty is impaired in fome degree ; and , if he has not power fufficient to oppose , his liberty is quite taken away , and the motion cannot be im- puted to him at all . The influence of appetite or paffion feems to me to be very like ...
... liberty is impaired in fome degree ; and , if he has not power fufficient to oppose , his liberty is quite taken away , and the motion cannot be im- puted to him at all . The influence of appetite or paffion feems to me to be very like ...
Pàgina 239
... liberty to limit the name of moral reafoning to this kind . Let it be understood therefore , that in the reasoning I call moral , the conclufion always is , That something in the conduct of moral agents is good or bad , in a greater or ...
... liberty to limit the name of moral reafoning to this kind . Let it be understood therefore , that in the reasoning I call moral , the conclufion always is , That something in the conduct of moral agents is good or bad , in a greater or ...
Pàgina 266
... as well as with the first principles of many important branches of human knowledge , it may justly be accounted an intellectual , as well as an active power of the mind . ESSAY ESSAY IV . OF THE LIBERTY OF MORAL AGENTS . 266 ESSAY III .
... as well as with the first principles of many important branches of human knowledge , it may justly be accounted an intellectual , as well as an active power of the mind . ESSAY ESSAY IV . OF THE LIBERTY OF MORAL AGENTS . 266 ESSAY III .
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 103 - By instinct, I mean a natural blind impulse to certain actions, without having any end in view, without deliberation, and very often without any conception of what we do.
Pàgina 489 - Ask a man why he uses exercise ; he will answer, because he desires to keep his health. If you then enquire, why he desires health, he will readily reply, because sickness is painful. If you push your enquiries farther, and desire a reason why he hates pain, it is impossible he can ever give any.
Pàgina 60 - Volition, it is plain, is an act of the mind knowingly exerting that dominion it takes itself to have over any part of the man, by employing it in, or withholding it from, any particular action.
Pàgina 186 - Here grows the Cure of all, this Fruit Divine, Fair to the Eye, inviting to the Taste, Of virtue to make wise: what hinders then To reach, and feed at once both Body and Mind...
Pàgina 108 - They work most geometrically, without any knowledge of geometry ; somewhat like a child, who, by turning the handle of an organ, makes good music, without any knowledge of music. The art is not in the child, but in him who made the organ. In like manner, when a bee makes its comb so geometrically, the geometry is not in the bee. but in that great Geometrician who made the bee, and made all things in number, weight, and measure.
Pàgina 457 - In short, it may be established as an undoubted maxim that no action can be virtuous, or morally good, unless there be in human nature some motive to produce it, distinct from the sense of its morality.
Pàgina 417 - That honesty is the best policy, may be a good general rule, but is liable to many exceptions; and he, it may perhaps be thought, conducts himself with most wisdom, who observes the general rule, and takes advantage of all the exceptions.
Pàgina 364 - Repent, and turn your" felves from all your tranfgreffions, fo iniqui" ty fhall not be your ruin. Caft away from " you all your tranfgreffions, whereby ye have " tranfgrefled; and make you a new heart and " a new fpirit, for why will ye die, O houfe " of Ifrael ? For I have no pleafure in the
Pàgina 403 - For, if it be not a benevolent action in itself, your belief of its tendency cannot change its nature. It is absurd, that your erroneous belief should make the action to be what you believe it to be. Nothing is more evident, than that a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is guilty of falsehood ; but the metaphysician would make this to be absurd.
Pàgina 80 - Isaac, with equal modesty and shrewdness, himself admitted. To one who complimented him on his genius, he replied that if he had made any discoveries, it was owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.