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" MORAL GOOD AND EVIL, then, is only THE CONFORMITY OR DISAGREEMENT OF OUR VOLUNTARY ACTIONS TO SOME LAW, WHEREBY GOOD OR EVIL IS DRAWN ON US, FROM THE WILL AND POWER OF THE LAW-MAKER... "
Sketches of the Philosophy of Morals - Page 91
by Sir Thomas Charles Morgan - 1822 - 369 pages
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The Languages of Psyche: Mind and Body in Enlightenment Thought

G. S. Rousseau - 1990 - 512 pages
...Pleasure or Pain, or that which occasions, or procures Pleasure or Pain to us. Morally Good and Evil then, is only the Conformity or Disagreement of our voluntary Actions to some Law, whereby Good or Evil is drawn on us, from the Will and Power of the Law-Maker; which Good and Evil, Pleasure or...
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Studies in the Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment

Michael Alexander Stewart - 1990 - 340 pages
...Sanctions" (p. 247). Whereas Locke had contended at Essay II. xxviii. 5 that "Morally Good and Evil ... is only the Conformity or Disagreement of our voluntary Actions to some Law, whereby Good or Evil is drawn on us from the Will and Power of the Lawmaker", Hutcheson was determined to show "that...
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British Moralists, 1650-1800: Hobbes

David Daiches Raphael - 1991 - 440 pages
...pleasure or pain, or that which occasions, or procures pleasure or pain in us. Morally good and evil then, is only the conformity or disagreement of our voluntary...actions to some law, whereby good and evil is drawn on us, from the will and power of the law-maker; which good and evil, pleasure or pain, attending our...
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John Locke's Liberalism

Ruth W. Grant - 1991 - 230 pages
...Pleasure or Pain, or that which occasions, or procures Pleasure or Pain to us. Morally Good and Evil then, is only the Conformity or Disagreement of our voluntary Actions to some Law, whereby Good or Evil is drawn on us, from the Will and Power of the Law-maker; which Good and Evil, Pleasure and...
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The Lockean Theory of Rights

A. John Simmons - 1994 - 402 pages
...supposed without a lawmaker, or without reward and punishment" (E, 1.2.12); "moral good and evil, then, is only the conformity or disagreement of our voluntary actions to some law, whereby good or evil is drawn on us, from the will and power of the lawmaker; which good and evil ... is that we...
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An Approach to Political Philosophy: Locke in Contexts

James Tully - 1993 - 354 pages
...is then linked to voluntarism by a new concept: moral good and evil.110 Morally Good and Evil then, is only the Conformity or Disagreement of our voluntary Actions to some Law, whereby Good or Evil is drawn on us, from the Will and Power of the Law-maker; which Good and Evil, Pleasure or...
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The Cambridge Companion to Locke

Vere Claiborne Chappell - 1994 - 354 pages
...punishments that is, good and evil - to the observance or breach of the rule. "Morally Good and Evil then, is only the Conformity or Disagreement of our voluntary Actions to some Law, whereby Good or Evil is drawn on us, from the Will and Power of the Law-maker; which Good and Evil, Pleasure or...
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The Mind of John Locke: A Study of Political Theory in Its Intellectual Setting

Ian Harris - 1998 - 460 pages
...and evil are a distinct class amongst the sources of pleasure and pain. 'Morally Good and Evil ... is only the Conformity or Disagreement of our voluntary Actions to some Law, whereby Good or Evil is drawn on us, from the Will and Power of the Law-maker; which Good and Evil, Pleasure or...
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John Locke: Resistance, Religion and Responsibility

John Marshall - 1994 - 514 pages
...was part of the argument about the standards by which men measured morality. Moral good or evil was 'the Conformity or Disagreement of our voluntary Actions to some Law, whereby Good or Evil is drawn on us, from the Will and Power of the Law-Maker'. This good or evil was 'Reward and...
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The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought': 1640-1740

Stephen L. Darwall - 1995 - 376 pages
...Pleasure or Pain, or that which occasions, or procures Pleasure or Pain to us," "Morally Good and Evil ... is only the Conformity or Disagreement of our Voluntary Actions to some Law, whereby Good or Evil is drawn on us, from the Will and Power of the Law-maker" (351). 25 CONFLICT, RATIONAL MOTIVE,...
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