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Page 55
... feeling which though in its higher degrees closely bordering on pain , we prefer to most of what are accounted pleasures . But we are quite equally capable of experiencing this feeling towards maleficent power ; and we never experience ...
... feeling which though in its higher degrees closely bordering on pain , we prefer to most of what are accounted pleasures . But we are quite equally capable of experiencing this feeling towards maleficent power ; and we never experience ...
Page 68
... feeling is conveyed in connection with the idea of nature - the word unnatural . That a thing is unnatural , in any precise meaning which can be at- tached to the word , is no argument for its being blamable ; since the most criminal ...
... feeling is conveyed in connection with the idea of nature - the word unnatural . That a thing is unnatural , in any precise meaning which can be at- tached to the word , is no argument for its being blamable ; since the most criminal ...
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... feeling , of our being able to modify our own character if we wish , is itself the feeling of moral freedom which we are conscious of . A person feels morally free who feels that his habits or his temptations are not his masters , but ...
... feeling , of our being able to modify our own character if we wish , is itself the feeling of moral freedom which we are conscious of . A person feels morally free who feels that his habits or his temptations are not his masters , but ...
Contents
Euthyphro Plato | 3 |
Two Meditations René Descartes | 18 |
Democracy | 23 |
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