 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
 | Peter Loptson - 1998 - 588 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... | |
 | David Hume - 1998 - 396 pages
...bishop and philosopher Joseph Butler (1692-1752), who argued that duty is erected on the law of nature: 'Your obligation to obey this law, is its being the law of your nature' (Fifteen Sermons 3 [2: 71]). Below, Hume refers to 'the rules of natural justice' and cites Montesquieu"... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - 1999 - 452 pages
...what obligation are we under to follow it! And he replies that 'the question 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... | |
 | Isabel Rivers - 2000 - 407 pages
...is intrinsic and is quite separate from the consideration of the rewards and punishments annexed to it: 'Your obligation to obey this law, is its being the law of your nature.' Conscience is its own authority.258 The second feature of the conscience that Butler stresses is reflection.... | |
 | Tara Smith - 2000 - 220 pages
...moral obligations. Butler contends that the question of conscience's authority carries its own answer along with it. Your obligation to obey this law is its being a law of your nature. That your conscience approves of and attests to such a course of action is itself... | |
 | J. B. Schneewind - 2003 - 696 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... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - 2003 - 452 pages
...what obligation are we under to follow it! And he replies that 'the question 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... | |
 | Robert A. Bowie - 2004 - 356 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 Seth - 2006 - 384 pages
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