 | Henry Hughes - 1890 - 392 pages
...these last, too, as expressing the fitness of actions, are real as truth itself. Let it be allowed, though virtue or moral rectitude does indeed consist...be for our happiness, or at least not contrary to it." 1 II. A justification of Butler's view, that conscience has but little actual power to influence... | |
 | Mattoon Monroe Curtis - 1890 - 168 pages
...the same course of life."1) Butler maintains in more chilly language than we find anywhere in Locke; "Though virtue or moral rectitude does indeed consist...and pursuit of, what is right and good, as such; yet when we sit down in a cool hour, we can neither justify to ourselves this or any other pursuit, till... | |
 | Ezekiel Gilman Robinson - 1891 - 280 pages
..."Though virtue or moral rectitude does consist in affection to a pursuit of right and good as such; yet when we sit down in a cool hour, we can neither justify to ourselves this nor any other pursuit till we are convinced that it will be for our happiness, or at least not contrary... | |
 | Henry Sidgwick - 1892 - 326 pages
...since "our ideas of happiness and misery are of all our ideas the nearest and most important to us ... though virtue or moral rectitude does indeed consist...and pursuit of what is right and good as such ; yet, when we sit down in a cool hour, we can neither justify to ourselves this or any other pursuit, till... | |
 | Frederick Ryland - 1893 - 266 pages
...with Butler, that " our ideas of happiness are of all ideas the nearest and most important to us," and that " when we sit down in a cool hour we can neither...be for our happiness, or at least not contrary to it " (Sermon XL). The difficulty lies in the attempt to define happiness. It is commonly identified... | |
 | Frank Chapman Sharp - 1898 - 144 pages
...are those who would answer without a moment's hesitation : Yes ! Such persons would claim with Butler that "though virtue or moral rectitude does indeed...and pursuit of what is right and good, as such; yet, when we sit down in a cool hour, we can neither justify to ourselves this or any other pursuit, till... | |
 | James Seth - 1894 - 500 pages
...final justification or explanation of virtue is its reduction to self-interest. "Let it be allowed, though virtue or moral rectitude does indeed consist...be for our happiness, or at least not contrary to it-" Criticism 8. We thus find in Butler several lines of thought theory. which it is difficult, if... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1896 - 488 pages
...these last too, as expressing the fitness of actions, are real as truth itself. Let it be allowed, though virtue or moral rectitude does indeed consist...be for our happiness, or at least not contrary to it l. § 22. It is requis1te to reconcile virtue with self-love. Common reason and humanity will have... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1896 - 484 pages
...these last too, as expressing the fitness of actions, are real as truth itself. Let it be allowed, though virtue or moral rectitude does indeed consist...be for our happiness, or at least not contrary to it l. § 22. It is requisite to reconcile virtue with self-love. Common reason and humanity will have... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1896 - 514 pages
...rectitude does indeed consist in affection to and pursuit of what is right and good, as such ; yet, when we sit down in a cool hour, we can neither justify...be for our happiness, or at least not contrary to it b.' Besides the general system of morality opened above, our author in his volume of Sermons has... | |
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Let it be allowed, though virtue or moral rectitude does indeed consist in affection to and pursuit of what is right and good, as such; yet, that when we sit down in a cool hour, we can neither justify to ourselves this or any other pursuit, till we are... 
