General Treatise of Morality Formed Upon the Principles of Natural Reason Only
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: July 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9780766168305
Subjects: Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy
First sentence: I. I Lay it down as the Foundation of my prefent Defign, that the Diftinction of moral Good and Evil depends on the Nature of Things, and the different Relations, wherein they ftand towards each other; that this Diftinction, therefore, is not owing to any meer pofitive Law or Appointment whatever, human or divine; nor to any Cuftom, general Confent of Mankind, or Opinion of particular Perfons; but arifeth from a certain Agreement or Difagreement, Proportion or Difproportion, which natural Reafon, when we duly attend to it, will not fail to difcover between the Things themfelves, about which it is converfant.