 For moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good and evil in the conversation and society of mankind. Good and evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men are different...  Zeitschrift für Ethnologie - Sida 1351871Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - 532 sidor
...Hobbes and his school. The following passage is a fair specimen of their meaning: — ' Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good and evil in the conversation and society of mankind. Good and evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs,... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 744 sidor
...The science of And the science of them, is the true and only moral philosophy. For moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and...evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions ; which in different tempers, customs,... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1839 - 428 sidor
...and eternal ; the science of them is the only true science of moral philosophy. For that is nothing but the science of what is good and evil in the conversation and society of mankind. In a state of nature private appetite is the measure of good and evil. But all men agree that peace... | |
 | 1842 - 1124 sidor
...shall preserve life and peace destroy h. The science of these is the true and only Moral Philosophy ; the science of what is good and evil, in the conversation and society of mankind. Good and evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs,... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1847 - 600 sidor
...security.' Yet he pronounces them ' immutable and eternal ;' ' the true moral philosophy ;' which is 1 nothing else but the science of what is good and evil in the conversation and society of mankind.' (Pt. I., ch. 15.) We are, however, deceived if we attach any importance to his transcendental phraseology,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 sidor
...there issecurity." Yet he pronounces them " immutable and eternal;" " the true moral philosophy;" which is " nothing else but the science of what is good...evil in the conversation and society of mankind." (Pt. I., ch. 15.) We are however deceived if we attach any importance to his transcendental phraseology,... | |
 | John Stewart - 1849 - 244 sidor
...preserve life and peace destroy it. The science of these is the tpu«- and only Moral Philosophy ; the science of what is good and evil, in the conversation and society of mankind. Good snd; evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs,... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1854 - 620 sidor
...and eternal ; the science of them is the only true science of moral philosophy. For that is nothing but the science of what is good and evil in the conversation and society of mankind. In a state of nature private appetite is the measure of good and evil. But all men agree that peace... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1847 - 586 sidor
...is security.' Yet he pronounces them ' immutable and eternal ;' ' the true moral philosophy ;' which is ' nothing else but the science of what is good...evil in the conversation and society of mankind.' (Pt. L, ch. 15.) We are, however, deceived if we attach any importance to his transcendental phraseology,... | |
 | 1870 - 494 sidor
...never be made lawful." " The science of these laws is the true moral philosophy. For moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good and evil in the conversation and society of mankind. (16) Of persons, authors, &c. "A person, is he whose words and actions are considered either as his... | |
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