...Millions of Suns, a&i Tens of MILLIONS OP WORLDS ! ! ! MORAL PHILOSOPHY. MORAL PHILOSOPHY, or ETHICS, is the Science of Morals: — it investigates the...renders them obligatory upon a reasonable BEING like MAM — it shows what classes of Actions and Dispositions possess this Quality : — it ascertains,...

...practical teaching? Supposing that she places in the hands of her students a work professing to treat of ' that science which teaches men their duty, and the reasons of it ;' that to this work she calls more particularly the attention of those, who from any cause decline...

...PHILOSOPHY. 1. DR. WAYLAND defines Moral Philosophy to be the tcience of Moral Law. Dr. Paley describes it as that science which teaches men their duty, and the reasons of it. Dr. Spring represents it to be the science which treats of the nature of human actions, of the motives...

...unqualified homage to the superior excellence of its moral precepts. Moral philosophy, according to Paley, is "that science which teaches men their duty and the reasons of it ;" according to Wayland, "it illustrates the sequence established between the moral quality of actions...

...SCIENCE. MORAL PHILOSOPHY, Morality, Ethics, Casuistry, Natural Law, mean all the same thing—namely, that science which teaches men their duty and the reasons of •it. The use of such a study depends upon this, that, without it, the rules of life, by which men are ordinarily...

...! Hence a greater responsibility devolves on the teacher. " Moral philosophy," says Dr. Paley, " is that science which teaches men their duty, and the reasons of it." This, then, is the knowledge u which the young most need, and which the friendly instructor should...

...law is, indeed, a branch of moral philosophy, considered in the limited sense of Paley, namely, as " that science which teaches men their duty and the reasons of it; " but moral philosophy or metaphysics, in its more enlarged and proper sense, means that science which teaches...

...SCIENCE. MORAL Philosophy, Morality, Ethics, Casuistry, Natural Law, mean all the same thing ; namely, that science which teaches men their duty and the reasons of it. The use of such a study depends upon this, that, without it, the rules of life, by which men are ordinarily...

...Author's own steps, and merely comment where comment seems called for. He defines Moral Philosophy to be " that Science which " teaches men their duty and the reasons of it." This is, however, as I have shown in my remarks upon the Preface, rather a definition of his own work...

...spring and source in the great fountain of everlasting wisdom. The natural law, according to Paley, is that science which teaches men their duty and the reasons of it. It derives whatever force it possesses from its presumed concordance with the will of God, and its...