An Enquiry Into the Principles of Human Happiness and Human Duty: In Two BooksW. Pickering, 1843 - 554 страници |
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... PARTICULAR DESIRES SECT . 1. - The Principal Desires enumerated SECT . 2. - On Love ..... 43 79 .... 79 94 SECT . 3. - On Desire of Power , or Ambition ..... 182 SECT . 4. - On Desire of Wealth , Covetousness , and Avarice .... ... 206 ...
... PARTICULAR DESIRES SECT . 1. - The Principal Desires enumerated SECT . 2. - On Love ..... 43 79 .... 79 94 SECT . 3. - On Desire of Power , or Ambition ..... 182 SECT . 4. - On Desire of Wealth , Covetousness , and Avarice .... ... 206 ...
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... particular . In the first Book of this inquiry , which treats of Moral Science in general , the word is used in the second sense above mentioned ; and in the following Book , which discourses of Ethics , it is employed in the third and ...
... particular . In the first Book of this inquiry , which treats of Moral Science in general , the word is used in the second sense above mentioned ; and in the following Book , which discourses of Ethics , it is employed in the third and ...
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... subdivision , for we cannot be conceived as wishing our own injury ; and therefore , the particular desires alone remain here to be enumerated . This distinction appears so obvious when once pointed out , HUMAN HAPPINESS . 37.
... subdivision , for we cannot be conceived as wishing our own injury ; and therefore , the particular desires alone remain here to be enumerated . This distinction appears so obvious when once pointed out , HUMAN HAPPINESS . 37.
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... if he be engrossed by general benevolence , and have thus an object for his social affections , he may do without particular attachments : otherwise , he will feel a want , the want of something ON DESIRE AND PASSION . 45.
... if he be engrossed by general benevolence , and have thus an object for his social affections , he may do without particular attachments : otherwise , he will feel a want , the want of something ON DESIRE AND PASSION . 45.
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... particular attachments are necessary to the great bulk of man- kind . And this explains why it so often happens that ... particular attachments tend to increase or diminish general benevolence ? I am inclined to believe that particular ...
... particular attachments are necessary to the great bulk of man- kind . And this explains why it so often happens that ... particular attachments tend to increase or diminish general benevolence ? I am inclined to believe that particular ...
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