 It is absurd, therefore, to ask why we are bound to practise "virtue. The very notion of virtue implies the notion of obligation. Every being who is conscious of the distinction between right and wrong carries about with him a law which he is bound to...  Outlines of Moral Philosophy - Page 144by Dugald Stewart - 1818 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1821 - 790 pages
...Bishop Butler, is, that " Every being who is conscious of the distinction between right and wrong, carries about with him a law which he is bound to observe." Now Mr. Penrose appears to adopt both this principle of which Mr. Stewart approves, and the preceding... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 662 pages
...implies the notion of obligation. Every being who is conscious of the distinction between right and wrong carries about with him a law which he is bound to...future state. " What renders obnoxious to punishment," as Dr. Butler has well remarked, " is not the foreknowledge of it, but merely the violating a known... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pages
...ignorance of a future state. " What renders obnoxious to punishment," as Dr. Butler has well remarked, " is not the foreknowledge of it, but merely the violating a known obligation." Or (as Plato has expressed the same idea,) TO fitv bgOov vofios taii fiaadixo?.* From what has been... | |
 | Latham Wainewright - 1830 - 340 pages
...the notion of obligation. Every being who is conscious of the distinction between right and wrong, carries about with him a law which he is bound to...notwithstanding he may be in total ignorance of a future state. ' ' This opinion entirely accords with the philosophy of his master, Dr. Reid, who loses no opportunity... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1833 - 408 pages
...every being who is conscious of the distinction between right and wrong carries about with him a line which he is bound to observe, notwithstanding he may be in total ignorance of a future state," is, I think, to push the doctrine of a moral sense to too great a length. The common sense and experience... | |
 | William Paley - 1835 - 324 pages
...chap. 2.] [Mr. Stewart says, " Every being who is conscious of the distinction between right and wrong, carries about with him a law which he is bound to observe." And in support of this proposition, he has quoted passages from many authors. — Philosophy of Active... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1829 - 554 pages
...practice virtue," says the author, " for the very notion of virtue implies the notion of obligation." "The moral faculty, considered as an active power of the mind, differs from all the others hitherto enumerated. The least violation of its authority fills us with remorse;... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1849 - 450 pages
...implies the notion of obligation. Every being who is conscious of the distinction between right and wrong carries about with him a law which he is bound to...future state. " What renders obnoxious to punishment," as Dr. Butler has well remarked, " is not the foreknowledge of it, but merely the violating a known... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 308 pages
...the notion of obligation. Every being, who is conscious of the distinction between Right and Wrong, carries about with him a law which he is bound to...it, but merely the violating a known obligation"*. 1 Writers on Natural Religion, generally, argue for a future state from our moral nature, which always... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 446 pages
...the notion of obligation. Every being, who is conscious of the distinction between Right and Wrong, carries about with him a law which he is bound to...it, but merely the violating a known obligation." — Butler. — [To fj,ev op&bv po/to? COT* fiafftXt/co'?.*] — 1st edit. 219. From what has been... | |
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