 | Joseph Butler - Occasional sermons - 1749 - 536 pages
...jealous, may or may not be applied to them ; not from their being attended with prefent or future Picafure or Pain ; but from their being what they are : Namely, what becomes fiich Creatures as we are, what the State of the Cafe requires, or the contrary. Or in other Words,... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Sermons, English - 1813 - 790 pages
...indifferent • epithet, suppose inquisitive or jealous, may, or may not, jjjjj!' . be applied to them ; not from their being, attended with present, or future...namely, what becomes such creatures as we are, what thfe,state of the case requires, or the contrary. Or in other words, we may judge and determine, that... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 720 pages
...any other indifferent epithet, suppose inquisitive or jealous, may or may not be applied to them; not from their being attended with present or future pleasure...namely, what becomes such creatures as we are, what the slate of the case requires, or the contrary."—Pref. to Sermons, p. 27. Here then morality is founded... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Apologetics - 1878 - 598 pages
...other indifferent epithet, suppose inquisitive or jealous, may or may not be applied to them ; not from their being attended with present or future pleasure or pain ; but from their hwing what they are; namely, what becomes such creatures as we are, what the state of the case requires,... | |
 | Friedrich Jodl - Ethics - 1882 - 1098 pages
...bnt froni their being what they are : namely, what becomes such creatures äs we are, what the atate of the case requires, or the contrary. Or in other words, we may judge and deterniine, that an action is morally good or evil, bei'ore \ve PO much äs considcr, whether it be... | |
 | Friedrich Jodl - Ethics - 1882 - 1092 pages
...agent, a law to himself." **) Pref. p. 23: „The goodness or badness of actions does notarise .... from their being attended with present or future pleasure...what they are ; namely, what becomes such creatures äs we are, what the state of the case requires, or the contrary. Or in other words, we may judge and... | |
 | James Seth - Ethics - 1894 - 488 pages
...Hence, particularly, utility is not the ground of virtue. We judge actions to be good or bad, " not from their being attended with present or future pleasure or pain, but from their being what they are — viz., what becomes such creatures as we are, what the state of the case requires, or the contrary."... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1896 - 484 pages
...other indifferent epithet, suppose inquisitive or jealous, may or may not be applied to them ; not from their being attended with present or future pleasure...what the state of the case requires, or the contrary. § 34. Interested or disinterested, not the criterion of good or evil. Or in other words, we may judge... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Apologetics - 1896 - 488 pages
...other indifferent epithet, suppose inquisitive or jealous, may or may not be applied to them ; not from their being attended with present or future pleasure...what the state of the case requires, or the contrary. § 34. Interested or disinterested, not the criterion of good or evil. Or in other words, we may judge... | |
 | Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge - Ethics - 1897 - 518 pages
...other indifferent epithet, suppose inquisitive or jealous, may or may not be applied to them ; not from their being attended with present or future pleasure...are ; namely, what becomes such creatures as we are, 1 J aji. " § 233, &c. 194 BUTLER. [Preface. what the state of the case requires, or the contrary.... | |
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... from their being what they are ; namely, what becomes such creatures as we are, what the state of the case requires, or the contrary. 
