Butler's Six Sermons on Moral Subjects: A Sequel to the Three Sermons on Human Nature

J. Deighton, 1849 - 118 páginas

Compassion is necessary to sympathy	10

Compassion produces pleasure	11

Compassion includes a feeling of satisfaction	12

The unfeeling are insensible to many pleasures	13

Secondly Without affections men would not do their duties	14

Compassion gives the indigent access to	15

Unfeeling men are restrained by the compassion	16

Apathy is a moral disease	17

Passion	59

Peevishness	60

Abuses of Resentment	61

Obstinate bad temper	62

Indignation is a balance to compassion	63

For example in punishing crime	64

Advantage of this	65

Indignation proves the reality of virtue	66

Hardness of heart in men of pleasure	18

Our Saviour was compassionate	19

Sympathy with sorrow more common than with	20

Danger of overrefinement II OF THE RIGHT USE OF COMPASSION 22 Final cause is discoverable in the affections 23 We can occasion misery mo...	21

Time relieves grief	27

Compassion tends to relieve misery	28

Is a call of nature	29

Compassion and liberality	30

Course directed by compassion	31

Compassion better than liberality	32

Does more good	33

Proportion of good	34

Pity mixed with other affections	35

Compassion may be excessive	36

But fashion favours insensibility	37

Error of pursuing pleasure	38

Use of the house of mourning	39

We should be content with moderate	40

Error as to the office of Resentment	44

What is the office?	45

Sudden anger and settled resentment	46

Sudden anger does not imply wrong received	47

Its office is to resist sudden force	48

Deliberate resentment implies wrong received	49

Indignation is not malice	50

Is stronger when we ourselves are concerned	51

This is the whole passion	52

Its object is injury	53

As appears by the aggravations	54

Degrees of the affection	55

Final cause of Resentment	56

Recapitulation	57

Such is the natural affection	58

And the wisdom of	67

Use of the affections in general	68

Forgiveness of injuries does not forbid resentment but the excess of	69

First Anger produces anger	71

Hence revenge would produce malice	72

And without limit	73

Second Resentment is a painful remedy	74

The argument does not depend on the image	75

Mankind being really a community	76

In its tendency to produce misery	78

This agrees with previous views	79

Hence love of enemies	80

Resentment is consistent with goodwill	81

Nor if we ourselves are the sufferers by	84

Selfpartiality alone denies this	85

To love enemies is not rant	86

We are to be impartial	87

This is reasonable	88

Practical reflections	89

We always exaggerate injuries	90

Anger is a false medium	91

Common sense suggests this	92

The origin of wrong is not malice	93

Vice is the object of compassion	94

We should recollect that we need forgiveness from	95

OF THE LOVE OF OUR NEIGHBOUR AS RELATED TO SELFLOVE 96 Whether narrow affections may not contradict pri vate good 97 Whether ...	97

The nature of selflove to be considered	98

Selflove has an internal other affections have	99

Proportion of affections to be considered	103

Selflove may fail to promote our good	105

Benevolence does not exclude selflove	111

Their regard to their objects does not disturb their	117

Título	Butler's Six Sermons on Moral Subjects: A Sequel to the Three Sermons on Human Nature
Autor	Joseph Butler
Editor	William Whewell
Editor	J. Deighton, 1849
Procedencia del original	Universidad de Harvard
Digitalizado	25 Nov 2008
N.º de páginas	118 páginas

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