 | Law - 1791 - 568 pages
...inftinft which inhabits the breafts of all mankind, and prompts them, by a natural bent and inclination, to approve of certain things as good and commendable,...condemn others as bad and blameable, independent of reflection : to this fenfe die faculty of reafon is added, to enable us to illuftrate, to prove, to... | |
 | William Fleming - Ethics - 1867 - 450 pages
...good and evil ; the First is only a kind of Instinct, the Second is Reason or Judgment. Moral Instinct I call that natural bent or inclination which prompts...and commendable, and to condemn others as bad and blamable, independent of reflection. Or, if any one has a mind to distinguish this instinct by the... | |
 | William Fleming - 1870 - 458 pages
...good and evil ; the First is only a kind of Instinct, the Second is Reason or Judgment. Moral Instinct I call that natural bent or inclination which prompts...and commendable, and to condemn others as bad and blamable, independent of reflection. Or, if any one has a mind to distinguish this instinct by the... | |
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... point. Mons. Burlamaqui, whose work on the Principles of Natural and Political Law is well known, has said (pt. ii. ch. 3), " God has invested us with two means of perceiving or discerning moral good and evil ; the First is only a kind of Instinct,... 