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Page 45
... reason , nor are done with any view to confequences . Infants , like brutes , are mostly governed by inftinct , without the least view to any end , good or ill . And even adult perfons act fometimes inftinctively ; thus one in extreme ...
... reason , nor are done with any view to confequences . Infants , like brutes , are mostly governed by inftinct , without the least view to any end , good or ill . And even adult perfons act fometimes inftinctively ; thus one in extreme ...
Page 46
... reason , and to prompt actions with a view to an end , it may in that flate be termed deliberative . With refpect to actions exerted as means to an end , defire to bring about the end is what deter- mines one to exert the action ; and ...
... reason , and to prompt actions with a view to an end , it may in that flate be termed deliberative . With refpect to actions exerted as means to an end , defire to bring about the end is what deter- mines one to exert the action ; and ...
Page 50
... reason now given , must be more agreeable than any other object . Is this fufficient to account for the pre- valence of felf - love ? In the foregoing part of this chapter it is fuggeft- ed , that fome circumftances make beings or ...
... reason now given , must be more agreeable than any other object . Is this fufficient to account for the pre- valence of felf - love ? In the foregoing part of this chapter it is fuggeft- ed , that fome circumftances make beings or ...
Page 51
... . There is a feparate reason why defire of which a rational being is the object , fhould be the ftrongeft : our defires fwell by par- tial gratification ; and the means we have of grati- D 2 Part I , EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS . 51.
... . There is a feparate reason why defire of which a rational being is the object , fhould be the ftrongeft : our defires fwell by par- tial gratification ; and the means we have of grati- D 2 Part I , EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS . 51.
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... reason fuggefts means to avoid the danger : if a man be injured , the first thing he thinks of , is what revenge he fhall take , and what means he fhall employ . Thefe particu- lars are no lefs obvious than natural . But as the paffions ...
... reason fuggefts means to avoid the danger : if a man be injured , the first thing he thinks of , is what revenge he fhall take , and what means he fhall employ . Thefe particu- lars are no lefs obvious than natural . But as the paffions ...
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