 THAT which renders beings capable of moral government, is their having a moral nature, and moral faculties of perception and of action. Brute creatures are impressed and actuated by various instincts and propensions : so also are we. But additional to...  Psychology - Page 330by Michael Maher - 1890 - 569 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Butler - 1813 - 496 pages
...use or means of those very suspected faculties themselves. 385 DISSERT. II. OF THE NATURE OF VIRTUE. THAT which renders beings capable of moral government,...are impressed and actuated by various instincts and propensioris : so also are \ve. But, additional to this, we have a capacity of reflecting upon actions... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1819 - 256 pages
...use or mean* of those very snspected faculties themselves. DISSERTATION II. Of the Nature of Virtue. THAT which renders beings capable of moral government,...are impressed and actuated by various instincts and propensions; so also are we. But additional to this, we have a capacity of reflecting upon actions... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1819 - 362 pages
...use or means of those, very suspected faculties thetnselves. DISSERT. II. OF THE NATURE OF VIRTUE. THAT which renders beings capable of moral government,...are impressed and actuated by various instincts and propensions : so also are we. But, additional to this, we have a capacity of reflecting upon actions... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1820 - 264 pages
...use or means of those very suspected faculties themselves. DISSERTATION II. Of the Nature of Virtue. THAT which renders beings capable of moral government,...are impressed and actuated by various instincts and propensions; so also are we. But additional to this, we have a capacity of reflecting upon actions... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1824 - 484 pages
...of those very suspected faculties themselves. 367 DISSERTATION II. Of tJie Nature of Virtue. JL HAT which renders beings capable of moral government,...are impressed and actuated by various instincts and propensions : so also are we. But additional to this, we have a capacity of reflecting upon actions... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1826 - 454 pages
...and how perfectly in unison with the language of Mr. Locke ! " That which renders beings," says he, " capable of moral government, is their having a moral nature and moral faculties of perception and action. Brute creatures are impressed and actuated by various instincts and propensions : so also are... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1833 - 378 pages
...power, — a moral sense. As an illustration of the principles here laid down, our author observes, " that which renders beings capable of moral government...are impressed and actuated by various instincts and propensions ; so also are we. But, additional to this, we have a capacity of reflecting- upon actions... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - 1834 - 414 pages
...or means of those very suspected faculties themselves. 2 z DISSERTATION II. Of Ihe Nature of Virtue. THAT which renders beings capable of moral government...are impressed and actuated by various instincts and propensions ; so also are we. But additional to this, we have a capacity of reflecting upon actions... | |
 | 1834 - 588 pages
...or means of those very suspected faculties themselves. 448 DISSERT. II. Of THE NATURE OF VIRTUE. • THAT which renders beings capable of moral government,...are impressed and actuated by various instincts and propensions : so also are we. But additional to this, we have a capacity of reflecting upon actions... | |
 | Adam Sedgwick - 1834 - 180 pages
...God. Bishop Butler commences his Dissertation on the Nature of Virtue, with the following assertion. That which renders beings capable of moral government...nature, and moral faculties of perception and of action. He soon after adds, That however much men may have disputed about the nature of virtue, and whatever... | |
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