...judgment of causes and effects. Where a passion is neither founded on false suppositions, nor chuses means insufficient for the end, the understanding...of my finger. 'Tis not contrary to reason for me to chuse ray total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian or person wholly unknown to me....

...That "actions may be laudable or blameable, but cannot be reasonable or unreasonable." That '; it is not contrary to reason, to prefer the destruction...of the whole world to the scratching of my finger." That " it is not contrary to reason, for me to choose my total ruin to prevent the least uneasiness...

...That " actions may be laudable or blameable, but cannot be reasonable or unreasonable :" That " it is not contrary to reason, to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger :" That "it is not contrary to reason, for me to choose my total ruin to prevent the least uneasiness...

...chooses means insufficient for the end, the understanding can neither justify nor condemn it. It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an...

...that " actions may be laudable -or blamable, but cannot be reasonable or unreasonable ;" that " it is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger ;" that " it is not contrary to reason for me to chuse my total ruin to prevent the least uneasiness...

...judgment of causes and effects. Where a passion is neither founded on false suppositions, nor chuses means insufficient for the end, the understanding...of my finger. 'Tis not contrary to reason for me to chuse my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasi[' Introd. § 44.— ED.] PART ness of an Indian or...

...than to serve and obey them."— Ibid. Bk. II. iii. 3 (p. 195). (2) [A few sentences further on] '' 'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction...of the whole world to the scratching of my finger." I quote freely from Hume, because his writings show much that is in Moral maxims apart from our habitations,...

...to serve and obey them."— Ibid. Bk. II. iii. 8 (p. 195). (2) [A few sentences further on] '' 'Tjs not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger." I quote freely from Hume, because his writings show much that is in Moral maxims apart from our habitations,...

...judgment of causes and effects. Where a passion is neither founded on false suppositions, nor chuses means insufficient for the end, the understanding...of my finger. 'Tis not contrary to reason for me to chuse my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasi[i lutrod. | 44.— ED.] PAKT ness of an Indian or...

...socalled, and the highest phase of Utilitarianism. In * Compare Hume's dictum before referred to : " 'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of iny finger." Treatise, B. II., 2, 8 — " Of the influencing Motivf. of the Will." What Hume means...