| 1918 - 850 páginas
...conclusion is, that the original source of all things is entirely indifferent to all these principles, and has no more regard to good above ill than to heat...cold, or to drought above moisture, or to light above heavy1." How is it, we may ask, that reflexion upon good and evil should lead two great thinkers to... | |
| David Hume - 1927 - 444 páginas
...things is entirely indifferent to all these principles, and has no more regard to good above ill thaw to heat above cold, or to drought above moisture,...malice, that they have neither goodness nor malice. Mixed phenomena can never prove the two former unmixed principles. And the uniformity and steadiness... | |
| David Hume - 1878 - 496 páginas
...conclusion is, that the original source of all things is entirely indifferent to all these principles, and has no more regard to good above ill than to heat...with perfect goodness, that they have perfect malice, tJiat they are opposite and have both goodness and malice, that they have neither goodness nor malice.... | |
| Donald A. Crosby - 1988 - 474 páginas
...scientifically depicted natural world which, in the words of the eighteenth-century philosopher David Hume, "has no more regard to good above ill than to heat...to drought above moisture, or to light above heavy" (Hume 1957:79). Another version of the relative (or valuative) form of cosmic nihilism is defended... | |
| Holmes Rolston - 2012 - 408 páginas
...property, a potential of systemic nature that it projects natural history. David Hume claimed that nature "has no more regard to good above ill than to heat...cold, or to drought above moisture, or to light above heavy."10 Or to life above nonlife, he probably would have added. That indifference can seem true in... | |
| Wayne P. Pomerleau - 1997 - 566 páginas
...entirely indifferent" to moral principles. He points out that "four hypotheses" are logically possible "concerning the first causes of the universe; that...malice, that they have neither goodness nor malice." The fact that we experience both good and evil phenomena in our world argues against the first two... | |
| Thomas P. Saine - 1997 - 388 páginas
...conclusion is that the original Source of all things is entirely indifferent to all these principles, and has no more regard to good above ill than to heat...to drought above moisture, or to light above heavy" (79). After all this, it is somewhat puzzling to see Hume add a twelfth dialogue — after Demea, the... | |
| David Hume, Richard H. Popkin - 1998 - 158 páginas
...conclusion is that the original source of all things is entirely indifferent to all these principles, and has no more regard to good above ill than to heat...malice; that they have neither goodness nor malice. Mixed phenomena can never prove the two former unmixed principles; and the uniformity and steadiness... | |
| David Hume - 1998 - 260 páginas
...sion is, that the original source1 of all things is entirely indifferent to all these principles, and has no more regard to good above ill than to heat...There may four hypotheses be framed concerning the first2 causes of the universe: that they are endowed with perfect goodness, that they have perfect... | |
| James Fieser - 2005 - 500 páginas
...conclusion is, that the original source of all things is entirely indifferent to all these principles, and has no more regard to good above ill, than to heat above cold, or light above heavy. And by far the most probable hypothesis seems to be, that the causes of the universe... | |
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