 They are ultimately founded upon experience of what, in particular instances, our moral faculties, our natural sense of merit and propriety, approve, or disapprove of. We do not originally approve or condemn particular actions; because, upon examination,...  Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind - Page 421by Thomas Brown - 1822Full view - About this book
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...condemn particular actions ; becaufe upon examination, they appear to be agreeable or inconfiftent with a certain general rule. The general rule, on...experience, that all actions of a certain kind, or circumftanced in a certain manner, are approved of difapproved of. To the man who firft faw an inhuman... | |
 | Adam Smith - Conduct of life - 1767 - 498 pages
...condemn particular actions ; becauie upon examination, they appear to be agreeable or inconfiftent with a certain general rule. The general rule, on...experience, that all actions of a certain. kind, or circumftanced in a certain manner, are approved or difapproved of. To the man who firft faw an inhuman... | |
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...upon examination, they appear to be agreeable or inconfiftent with a certain general rule. The generaI rule, on the contrary, is formed by finding from experience, that all actions of a certain kind, or circumftanced in a certain manner, are approved or difapproved of. To the man who firft faw an inhuman... | |
 | Adam Smith - Ethics - 1774 - 504 pages
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 | Adam Smith - Ethics - 1792 - 510 pages
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 | 1801 - 800 pages
...to be agreeable or inconfiirtnt with a certain gérerai rule. The general rule, on the con. trary, is formed by finding, from experience, that all actions of a certain kind, or fircumftarrîed in a certain manner, are approved or difapproved of. To the man who firfl faw an inhuman... | |
 | English literature - 1801 - 736 pages
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...and propriety, approve, or disapprove of. We do not originally approve or condemn particular actions; because, upon examination, they appear to be agreeable...avarice, envy, or unjust resentment, and upon one too that loved and trusted the murderer, who beheld the last agonies of the dying person, who heard him,... | |
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