 Your obligation to obey this law, is its being the law of your nature. That your conscience approves of and attests to such a course of action, is itself alone an obligation. Conscience does not only offer itself to show us the way we should walk in,...  Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel - Page 39by Joseph Butler - 1726 - 312 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Hughes - 1891 - 344 pages
...light of reason we have ground to believe, are annexed to it. The question then carries its own answer along with it. Your obligation to obey this law is its being the law of your nature. That your conscience approves of and attests to such a course of action is itself alone an obligation. Conscience... | |
 | William Robert Scott - 1891 - 88 pages
...1 Butler here combines Cudworth and Clarke. * P. xxv. (Clarendon Press Ed.) » P. 132. « P. 141. ' Your obligation to obey this law is its being the law of your nature ' (Ser. ii.) l Cf. 'Anal.' part i. ch. vi.; cf. ' it is not . . . that obligeth to do positive things... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1896 - 488 pages
...light of reason we have ground to believe are annexed to it. The question then carries its own answer along with it. Your obligation to obey this law, is its being the law of your nature. That your conscience approves of and attests to such a course of action, is itself alone an obligation. Conscience... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1896 - 484 pages
...light of reason we have ground to believe are annexed to it. The question then carries its own answer along with it. Your obligation to obey this law, is its being the law of your nature. That your conscience approves of and attests to such a course of action, is itself alone an obligation. Conscience... | |
 | Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge - 1897 - 518 pages
...light of reason we have ground to believe, are annexed to it. The question then carries its own answer along with it. Your obligation to obey this law, is its being the law of your nature. That your conscience approves of and attests to such a course of action, is itself alone an obligation. Conscience... | |
 | James Hayden Tufts - 1898 - 122 pages
...to what constitutes the obligation to obey this principle, his first reply is like that of Kant : ' Your obligation to obey this law is its being the law of your nature' ; but in part perhaps out of deference to the hedonistic psychology of the time, in part it may be... | |
 | Frank Thilly - 1900 - 368 pages
...authority, it would absolutely govern the world. " What obligations are we under to attend to and follow it ? — Your obligation to obey this law is its being the law of your nature. That your conscience approves of and attests to such a course of action is itself alone an obligation. Conscience... | |
 | Frank Thilly - 1900 - 374 pages
...authority, it would absolutely govern the, world. " What obligations are we under to attend to and follow it ? — Your obligation to obey this law is its being the law of your nature. That your conscience approves of and attests to such a course of actioiTis itself alone an obligation. Conscience... | |
 | John Stuart Mackenzie - 1901 - 508 pages
...light of reason we have ground to believe, are annexed to it. The question then carries its own answer along with it. Your obligation to obey this law is its being the law of your nature. That your conscience approves ' Sermon II. * Sermon III. of and attests to such a course ot action, is itself... | |
 | John Kells Ingram - 1901 - 144 pages
...punishments which we feel, and those which, from the light of reason, we have ground to believe annexed to it. ... Your obligation to obey this law is its being the law of your nature. ..." This sounds like an appeal to something in our constitution as, in itself, a sufficient basis... | |
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