 | Jos Brough - 1903 - 190 pages
...they can never overpass or disclaim. And as with Conscience so with the Sense of Method, " it does not only offer itself to show us the way we should...the guide assigned us by the Author of our nature: it therefore belongs to our condition of being, it is our duty to walk in that path, and to follow... | |
 | Alexander Whyte - 1903 - 258 pages
...approves of and attests to such a course of action, is itself alone an obligation. Conscience does not only offer itself to show us the way we should...that it is our natural guide ; the guide assigned to us by the Author of our nature. It therefore belongs to our condition of being, it is our duty to... | |
 | Benjamin Rand - 1909 - 832 pages
...approves of and attests to such a course of action, is itself alone an obligation. Conscience does not only offer itself to show us the way we should...the guide assigned us by the Author of our nature : it therefore belongs to our condition of being, it is our duty to walk in that path, and follow this... | |
 | James Seth - 1910 - 498 pages
...approves of and attests to such a course of action, is itself alone an obligation. Conscience does not only offer itself to show us the way we should...the guide assigned us by the Author of our nature : it therefore belongs to our condition of being ; it is our duty to walk in that path, and follow... | |
 | Reginald Arthur Percy Rogers - 1911 - 338 pages
...is " a law to himself." l It does not require to give evidence oij its claim to supremacy, for " it carries its own authority with it that it is our natural guide, the guide assigned to us by the Author of our nature." Butler speaks of Conscience as a " faculty," but, strictly speaking,... | |
 | 1918 - 846 pages
...distinguish between, approve and disapprove their own actions.* Moreover, "conscience not only offers itself to show us the way we should walk in, but it also carries its own authority with it, that it is our natural guide." The conclusion is that from... | |
 | C. S. Lewis - 1990 - 356 pages
...language but, well weighed, no narrower in its claim, is Butler's assertion that ' Conscience does not only offer itself to show us the way we should...it that it is our natural guide; the guide assigned to us by the Author of our nature'.2 Expressions of this sort are not, I think, to be found in the... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1983 - 82 pages
...conscience approves of and attests to such a course of action is itself alone an obligation. Conscience does not only offer itself to show us the way we should...the guide assigned us by the Author of our nature; it therefore belongs to our condition of being, it is our duty to walk in that path and follow this... | |
 | David Daiches Raphael - 1991 - 440 pages
...approves of and attests to such a course of action, is itself alone an obligation. Conscience does not only offer itself to show us the way we should...own authority with it, that it is our natural guide; though they often strive for mastery with judgement or reflection ; yet, since the superiority of this... | |
 | Reginald Ernest Oscar White - 1994 - 1414 pages
...such a course is itself an obligation . . . Conscience does not only offer itself to show us the way, it likewise carries its own authority with it, that it is our natural guide . . ."* Beach therefore describes Butler as thoroughly rationalist, subscribing to the tenet of the... | |
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Your obligation to obey this law, is its being the law of your nature. That your conscience approves of and attests to such a course of action, is itself alone an obligation. Conscience does not only offer itself to show us the way we should walk in,... 
