| Thomas Reid - 1863 - 542 páginas
...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... | |
| David Hume - 1874 - 544 páginas
...insufficient for the end, the understanding can neither justify nor condemn it. 'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the...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... | |
| William Jackson - 1875 - 374 páginas
...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 my finger." Treatise, B. II., 2, 8 — " Of the influencing Motiri of the Will." What Hume means is, of course,... | |
| 1880 - 612 páginas
...gratification, but it cannot exert any direct direct influence on the will. ' 'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the...prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian or person wholly unknown to me.' Morality, therefore, is not in any sense an object of reason, but depends entirely... | |
| David Hume - 1882 - 524 páginas
...insufficient for the end, the understanding can neither justify nor condemn it. 'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the...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... | |
| William Jackson - 1885 - 410 páginas
...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... | |
| David Hume - 1888 - 752 páginas
...insufficient for the end, the understanding can neither justify nor condemn it. 'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. 'Tis noi contrary to reason for me to chuse my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian... | |
| David Hume - 1893 - 296 páginas
...insufficient for the end, the understanding can neither justify nor condemn it. ' Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the...my finger. ' Tis not contrary to reason for me to chuse my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian or person wholly unknown to me. '... | |
| Samuel Harris - 1896 - 592 páginas
...can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them .... 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 Indian... | |
| David Hume - 1898 - 534 páginas
...insufficient for the end, the understanding can neither justify nor condemn it. 'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the...of my finger. 'Tis not contrary to reason for me to chuse my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasi[' Introd. § 44.— ED.] o 2 PART ness of an Indian... | |
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