 | Thomas Chalmers - Human beings - 1833 - 348 pages
...purpose of the physical sciences, throughout all their provinces, is to answer the question, " What is?" The purpose of the moral sciences is to answer the question, " What ought to be ?" — It should be well kept in view, that mental philosophy is one province of the physical sciences,... | |
 | James Machintosh - 1884 - 310 pages
...consist only of facts arranged according to their likeness, and expressed by general names given to every class- of similar facts. The purpose of the moral...source of voluntary actions ought to be adapted." ,- .After some preliminary Observations, he glances over ancient ethics. The following coup d'ceil... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1834 - 402 pages
...consist only of facts arranged according to their likeness, and expressed by general names given to every class of similar facts. The purpose of the moral sciences...ought to govern voluntary action, and to which those hahitual dispositions of mind which are the source of voluntary actions ought to be adapted." After... | |
 | sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pages
...consist only of facts arranged according to their likeness, and expressed by general names given to every class of similar facts. The purpose Of the moral sciences is to answer the question, What ought to be 1 They aim at ascertaining the rules which ought to govern voluntary action, and to which those habitual... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1834 - 394 pages
...consist only of facts arranged according to their likeness, and expressed by general names given to every class of similar facts. The purpose of the moral sciences is to answer the question, What ought to be 1 They aim at ascertaining the rules which ought to govern voluntary action, and to which those habitual... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1834 - 636 pages
...sciences, throughout all their provinces, is, we have been told, to answer the question, What is? That of the moral sciences is, to answer the question, What ought to be ? But even as to what /'*, a distinction must be made, as wide as the interval between the respective... | |
 | 1834 - 550 pages
...sciences, throughout all their provinces, is, we have been told, to answer the question, What is? That of the moral sciences is, to answer the question, What ought to be? But even as to what is, a distinction must be made, as wide as the interval between the respective... | |
 | Renn Dickson Hampden (bp. of Hereford.) - Ethics - 1835 - 306 pages
...consist only of facts arranged according to their likeness, and expressed by general names given to every class of similar facts. The purpose of the moral sciences...source of voluntary actions ought to be adapted."- — -Sir James Mackintosh's Prelim. Dissert, on . Prog. of Ethic. Phil. Encyc. Brit. 7th edit. p. 296.... | |
 | Natural theology - 1836 - 288 pages
...purpose of the physical sciences, throughout all their provinces, is to answer the question " What is?" The purpose of the moral sciences is to answer the question, " What ought to be?" — It should be well kept in view, that mental philosophy is one' province of the physical sciences,... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Human beings - 1839 - 308 pages
...purpose of the physical sciences, throughout all their provinces, is to answer the question, ' What is ?' The purpose of the moral sciences is to answer the question, ' What ought to be ?'" — It should be well kept in view, that mental philosophy is one province of the physical sciences,... | |
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The purpose of the Physical Sciences throughout all their provinces, is to answer the question What is? They consist only of facts arranged according to their likeness, and expressed by general names given to *ery class of similar facts. 
