Outlines of Moral Philosophy: For the Use of Students in the University of EdinburghA. Constable and Fairbairn & Anderson, 1818 - 320 sider |
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acquire active principles agreeable animals appears appetites argument arise Association of Ideas attention benevolent affections body cerning ciples circumstances combinations commonly conclusion conduct connected consciousness consequence considered Cudworth degree Deity desire doctrine Dr Reid duty ed powers effects ence established order evil existence experience external facts Final Causes furnish habits happiness Hence human affairs human constitution human mind Hume's principles Ideal Theory important instance intuitive Justice knowledge language law of nature Lord Bacon mankind manner material world means ment mon language moral constitution Moral Faculty MORAL PHILOSOPHY neral notions objects observation operations origin OUTLINES OF MORAL particular perceive perception pheno phenomena produced reason relations remark respect result riety Right and Wrong scepticism SECTION SECTION Self-love sensations sense simple ideas sion species spect speculations successive events supposed syllogism Taste theory ther thoughts tion trace truth tural ultimate fact universe virtue writers
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Side 181 - I remember, that when I asked our famous Harvey, in the only discourse I had with him (which was but a while before he died), what were the things that induced him to think of a circulation of the blood ? he answered me, that when he took notice that the valves in the veins of so many parts of the body were so placed, that they gave free passage to the blood towards the heart, but opposed the passage of the venal blood the contrary way...
Side 69 - As we advance in years, and as our animal powers lose their activity and vigour, we gradually aim at extending our influence over others by the superiority of fortune and station, or by the still more flattering superiority of intellectual endowments, by the force of our understanding, by the extent of our information, by the arts of persuasion, or the accomplishments of address.
Side 157 - All events seem entirely loose and separate. One event follows another ; but we never can observe any tie between them. They seem conjoined, but never connected. And as we can have no idea of any thing which never appeared to our outward sense or inward sentiment, the necessary conclusion seems to be that we have no idea of connexion or power at all, and that these words are absolutely, without any meaning, when employed either in philosophical reasonings or common life.
Side 262 - I shall add, as an observation to the same purpose, that, if a man be liable to a vice or imperfection, it may often happen, that a good quality, which he possesses along with it, will render him more miserable, than if he were completely vicious.
Side 35 - ... to make a selection of qualities and of circumstances from a variety of different objects, and by combining and disposing these, to form a new creation of its own.
Side 120 - I mean to assert a truth which is as independent of my constitution as the equality of the three angles of a triangle to two right angles?
Side 130 - It is absurd, therefore, to ask why we are bound to practise "virtue. The very notion of virtue implies the notion of obligation. Every being who is conscious of the distinction between right and wrong carries about with him a law which he is bound to observe, notwithstanding he may be in total ignorance of a future state. " What renders obnoxious to punishment," as Dr. Butler has well remarked, " is not the foreknowledge of it, but merely the violating a known obligation.
Side xiii - According to the doctrine now stated, the highest, or rather the only proper object of Physics, is to ascertain those established conjunctions of successive events, which constitute the order of the Universe ; to record the phenomena which it exhibits to our observations, or which it discloses to our experiments ; and to refer these phenomena to their general laws.
Side 212 - The natural apprehensions of the mind when under the influence of remorse. " 3. The exact accommodation of the condition of the lower animals to their instincts and to their sensitive powers, contrasted with the unsuitableness of the present state of things to the intellectual faculties of mail ; to IV.
Side 64 - from those affections which interest us in the happiness of others, and from all the advantages which we ourselves derive from the social union we are led by a natural and instinctive desire to associate with our own species. This principle is easily discernible in the minds of children, and it is common to man with many of the brutes.