Paley's Moral and Political PhilosophyUriah Hunt, 1835 - 298 páginas |
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... guilt fall ? 117 What then is the most important part of ethics ? 118 How does the moral faculty differ from conscience ? 119 Can the moral faculties be improved ? 120 Is it our duty to improve them ? 121 What is the first means of ...
... guilt fall ? 117 What then is the most important part of ethics ? 118 How does the moral faculty differ from conscience ? 119 Can the moral faculties be improved ? 120 Is it our duty to improve them ? 121 What is the first means of ...
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... guilt of vice ? answer , in the formation of such habits . Hence arises the necessity of doing or omitting many things for the sake of habit alone . For instance , a person in apparently great distress begs for charity . If we asked ...
... guilt of vice ? answer , in the formation of such habits . Hence arises the necessity of doing or omitting many things for the sake of habit alone . For instance , a person in apparently great distress begs for charity . If we asked ...
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... guilt of a bad action consists in the example ; and consequently , if the act be done in secrecy , since it fur- nishes no bad example , part of the guilt drops off . In the case of suicide , for instance , if the act be done so that ...
... guilt of a bad action consists in the example ; and consequently , if the act be done in secrecy , since it fur- nishes no bad example , part of the guilt drops off . In the case of suicide , for instance , if the act be done so that ...
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... guilt of one act cannot justly be charged with the accumulated guilt of many similar acts . We reply , that the reason for prohibiting the act , and the measure of its guilt , is in proportion to the mischief which would arise by the ...
... guilt of one act cannot justly be charged with the accumulated guilt of many similar acts . We reply , that the reason for prohibiting the act , and the measure of its guilt , is in proportion to the mischief which would arise by the ...
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... guilt in the violation of an imperfect obligation than of a perfect one ; which is a groundless opinion . For the degree of guilt is determined by circumstances unconnected with the distinction between a perfect and imperfect obligation ...
... guilt in the violation of an imperfect obligation than of a perfect one ; which is a groundless opinion . For the degree of guilt is determined by circumstances unconnected with the distinction between a perfect and imperfect obligation ...
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advantage answer apostles apply argument arise authority bound CHAP charity Christ Christian civil command conduct conscience consequence considered constitution contract crime Decalogue Dewar divine duty Dymond effect equally evil existence expediency falsehood favor Federalist feelings Give an example given guilt habit happiness Hence human individual injury instance institution intended interest Irenæus Jews judge justice kind labor law of nature laws of war legislature liberty liturgy marriage means ment mind mischief mixed government moral Mosaic law motives nations natural rights necessary neral oath obedience object obligation occasion opinion pain Paley parent parties perform perjury person pleasure polygamy prayer principle produce prohibition promise public worship punishment question reason regulated religion remarks rest Roman law rule Sabbath Scriptures sense society statute of distributions suppose swear Tatian thing Thomas Morell tion tivated truth utility vice virtue wrong
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Página 240 - To establish post offices and post roads ; To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries ; To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court; To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas...
Página 229 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Página 160 - And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.
Página 71 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Página 251 - The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community. The Legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated. The Judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse ; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society ; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment ; and...
Página 197 - For, rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same ; for he is the minister of God to thee for good.
Página 158 - Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Página 290 - Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment; but I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment...
Página 200 - Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well. For so is the will of God, that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
Página 257 - There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the constitution, can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men, acting by virtue of powers, may do not...