The Theory of Moral SentimentsA. Millar, 1761 - 436 стор. |
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... Merit and Demerit ; or of the objects of reward and punishment . SECTION I. Of the fenfe of merit and demerit CHA P. I. 109 That whatever appears to be the proper object of gratitude , appears to deferve reward ; and that , in the fame ...
... Merit and Demerit ; or of the objects of reward and punishment . SECTION I. Of the fenfe of merit and demerit CHA P. I. 109 That whatever appears to be the proper object of gratitude , appears to deferve reward ; and that , in the fame ...
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... merit and demerit 124 SECTION II . Of justice and beneficence CHA P. I. Comparison of those two virtues CHA P. II . 132 Of the fenfe of justice , of remorse , and of the confcioufness of merit 140 CHAP . CHA P. III . Of the utility of ...
... merit and demerit 124 SECTION II . Of justice and beneficence CHA P. I. Comparison of those two virtues CHA P. II . 132 Of the fenfe of justice , of remorse , and of the confcioufness of merit 140 CHAP . CHA P. III . Of the utility of ...
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... merit or demerit of the action , the qualities by which it is en- titled to reward , or is deferving of punish- ment . In Philofophers have , of late years , confidered chiefly the tendency of affections , and have given little ...
... merit or demerit of the action , the qualities by which it is en- titled to reward , or is deferving of punish- ment . In Philofophers have , of late years , confidered chiefly the tendency of affections , and have given little ...
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... merit of his benefactor . But if he is in love , though we may think his passion just as reasonable as any of the kind , yet we never think ourselves bound to conceive a paffion of the fame kind , and for the fame person for whom he has ...
... merit of his benefactor . But if he is in love , though we may think his passion just as reasonable as any of the kind , yet we never think ourselves bound to conceive a paffion of the fame kind , and for the fame person for whom he has ...
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... merit , is generally disagreeable , and å fentiment of envy commonly prevents us from heartily fympathifing with his joy . If he has any judgment he is fenfible of this , and instead of appearing to be elated with his good fortune , he ...
... merit , is generally disagreeable , and å fentiment of envy commonly prevents us from heartily fympathifing with his joy . If he has any judgment he is fenfible of this , and instead of appearing to be elated with his good fortune , he ...
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Сторінка 202 - When I endeavour to examine my own conduct, when I endeavour to pass sentence upon it, and either to approve or condemn it, it is evident that, in all such cases, I divide myself, as it were, into two persons ; and that I, the examiner and judge, represent a different character from that other I, the person whose conduct is examined into, and judged of.
Сторінка 3 - When we see a stroke aimed, and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm ; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer.
Сторінка 202 - The first is the spectator, whose sentiments with regard to my own conduct I endeavour to enter into, by placing myself in his situation, and by considering how it would appear to me, when seen from that particular point of view. The second is the agent, the person whom I properly call myself, and of whose conduct, under the character of a spectator, I was endeavouring to form some opinion.
Сторінка 410 - ... actions ; thirdly, we observe that his conduct has been agreeable to the general rules by which those two sympathies generally act ; and, last of all, when we consider such actions, as making a part of a system of behaviour which tends to promote the happiness either of the individual or of the society, they appear to derive a beauty from this utility, not unlike that which we ascribe to any well-contrived machine.
Сторінка 147 - Society, however, cannot subsist among those who are at all times ready to hurt and injure one another.
Сторінка 229 - THE regard to those general rules of conduct is what is properly called a sense of duty, a principle of the greatest consequence in human life, and the only principle by which the bulk of mankind are capable of directing their actions.
Сторінка 2 - ... it. Of this kind is pity or compassion, the emotion which we feel for the misery of others when we either see it or are made to conceive it in a very lively manner.
Сторінка 248 - The sum of the ten commandments is, To love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind ; and our neighbour as ourselves.
Сторінка 316 - Fortune never exerted more cruelly her empire over mankind, than when she subjected those nations of heroes to the refuse of the jails of Europe, to wretches who possess the virtues neither of the countries which they come from, nor of those which they go to, and whose levity, brutality, and baseness, expose them to the contempt of the vanquished.
Сторінка 30 - ... the great, the awful and respectable, the virtues of self-denial, of self-government, of that command of the passions which subjects all the movements of our nature to what our own dignity and honour, and the propriety of our own conduct require, take their origin from the other.