 It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life: in this falling far below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character,...  The Southern Review - Σελίδα 60επεξεργασία από - 1867Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 σελίδες
...: in its precepts (as has been well said) ' thou shalt not' predominates unduly over ' thou shalt.' In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,...below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character, by disconnecting each man's feelings... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 216 σελίδες
...: in its precepts (as has been well said) 'thou shalt not' predominates unduly over ' thou shalt.' In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,...the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous ur* life : in this falling far below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to... | |
 | Henry Brooke - 1859 - 496 σελίδες
...Stuart Mill says in his late grand Essay upon Liberty, that " our popular religious ethics, by holding out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as...appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life, fall far below the best of the ancients, and do what they can to give to human morality lii PREFACE.... | |
 | Henry Brooke - 1859 - 490 σελίδες
...Stuart Mill says in his late grand Essay upon Liberty, that "our popular religious ethics, by holding out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as...appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life, fall far below the best of the ancients, and do what they can to give to human morality lii PREFACE.... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1860 - 394 σελίδες
...Stuart Mill says, in his late grand Essay upon Liberty, that " our popular religious ethics, by holding out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as...appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life, fall far below the best of the ancients, and do what they can to give to human morality an essentially... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1860 - 382 σελίδες
...Testament." But if he intends to deny that the system of morality taught by Christ and the apostles " holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell as appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life," we find him in controversy with these declarations... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 236 σελίδες
...in its precepts (as has been well said) " thou shalt not " predominates unduly over " thou shalt." In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,...below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character, by disconnecting each man's feelings... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 232 σελίδες
...: in its precepts (as has been well said) "thou shalt not" predominates unduly over " thou shalt." In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,...below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character, by disconnecting each man's feelings... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 118 σελίδες
...; in its precepts (as has been well said) ' thou shalt not' predominates unduly over 'thou shalt.' In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,...into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven aud the threat of hell, as the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life: in this falling... | |
 | Brooke Foss Westcott - 1866 - 248 σελίδες
...its ' precepts (as has been well said) " thou shalt not " ' predominates unduly over " thou shalt " ' It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of...appointed and appropriate motives to ' a virtuous life Even in the morality of pri' vate life, whatever exists of magnanimity, high' mindedness, . personal... | |
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