The Principles of Natural Law: In which the True Systems of Morality and Civil Government are Established; and the Different Sentiments of Grotius, Hobbes, Puffendorf, Barbeyrac, Locke, Clark, and Hutchinson, Occasionally ConsideredJ. Nourse, 1752 - 312 sivua |
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... cases have done some acts of virtue , do not merit the title of honest men . There is no such thing to be found in this world as virtue in every respect complete ; and the weakness inseparable from man , requires we should not judge him ...
... cases have done some acts of virtue , do not merit the title of honest men . There is no such thing to be found in this world as virtue in every respect complete ; and the weakness inseparable from man , requires we should not judge him ...
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... cases . ' Tis thus we are enabled to difcern what is good and juft , or which amounts to the fame thing , to know what is the divine will , in respect to the moral conduct we are to obferve . Let us unite at present these two means , in ...
... cases . ' Tis thus we are enabled to difcern what is good and juft , or which amounts to the fame thing , to know what is the divine will , in respect to the moral conduct we are to obferve . Let us unite at present these two means , in ...
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... case indifpenfibly obliged to acquire fuch knowledge as is neceffary for discharging properly the offices or employments to which they are called . Hence it is evident , that as imputability supposeth the power of acting or not acting ...
... case indifpenfibly obliged to acquire fuch knowledge as is neceffary for discharging properly the offices or employments to which they are called . Hence it is evident , that as imputability supposeth the power of acting or not acting ...
Sivu 247
... case the action ought to be morally esteemed as never committed , because it is not attended with any moral effect . tween the XII . 8. Let us , in fine , observe , that there is fome 8. Differ- difference between the imputation of good ...
... case the action ought to be morally esteemed as never committed , because it is not attended with any moral effect . tween the XII . 8. Let us , in fine , observe , that there is fome 8. Differ- difference between the imputation of good ...
Sivu 258
... cases ; or at least he ought to have given us fome rule to distinguish thefe exceptions with certainty . X. 10. But if the perfon who does a bad ac- more per- tion through fear , is generally anfwerable for it , the author of the ...
... cases ; or at least he ought to have given us fome rule to distinguish thefe exceptions with certainty . X. 10. But if the perfon who does a bad ac- more per- tion through fear , is generally anfwerable for it , the author of the ...
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Sivu 287 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass in a few years ; he has all the endowments he is capable of, and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Sivu 287 - But can we believe a thinking being that is in a perpetual progress of improvements, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom and power, must perish at her first setting out, and in the very beginning of her inquiries...
Sivu 196 - Hence the general principle of the law of nations is nothing more than the general law of sociability, which obliges all nations that have any intercourse with one another, to practise those duties to which individuals are naturally subject.
Sivu 287 - Point of Perfection that he can never pafs : In a few Years he has all the Endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thoufand more, would be the fame thing he is at prefent. Were a human...
Sivu 145 - ... point. Mons. Burlamaqui, whose work on the Principles of Natural and Political Law is well known, has said (pt. ii. ch. 3), " God has invested us with two means of perceiving or discerning moral good and evil ; the First is only a kind of Instinct, the Second is Reason or Judgment. Moral Instinct I call that natural bent or inclination which prompts us to approve of certain things as good and commendable, and to condemn others as bad and blamable, independent of reflection. Or, if any one has...
Sivu 287 - Are fuch abilities made for no purpofe ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pafs : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten...
Sivu 77 - A being, independent of any other, has no rule to pursue, but such as he prescribes to himself; but a state of dependence will inevitably oblige the inferior to take the will of him, on whom he depends, as the rule of his conduct : not indeed in every particular, but in all those points wherein his dependence consists.
Sivu 130 - ... reason to the next and immediate cause thereof, and from thence to the cause of that cause, and plunge himself profoundly in the pursuit of causes, shall at last come to this, that there must be, as even the heathen philosophers confessed, one first mover ; that is, a first and an eternal cause of all things, which is that which men mean by the name of God...
Sivu 195 - Hobbes very juftly, a is divided into the natural law of man, and the natural law of jlates ; and the latter is what we call the law of nations.