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... morality , monastick morality , which holds pleasure itself to be a vice , such as eating salt with our fish , because it makes it taste better.220 Is it no virtue to help my own child because it also gives me pleasure to do so ? In ...
... morality , monastick morality , which holds pleasure itself to be a vice , such as eating salt with our fish , because it makes it taste better.220 Is it no virtue to help my own child because it also gives me pleasure to do so ? In ...
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... moral principles , at the root - not least because those moral principles will never be a true , integrated part of you unless the passions grow through to them rather than take them as a grafting . ' Wild Nature's vigour working at the ...
... moral principles , at the root - not least because those moral principles will never be a true , integrated part of you unless the passions grow through to them rather than take them as a grafting . ' Wild Nature's vigour working at the ...
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... morality , what brings us back to Butler is this : that the religious act , precisely for eschewing immediate happiness or satisfaction , stands to our hope of making a success of our probation even as our moral behaviour is more ...
... morality , what brings us back to Butler is this : that the religious act , precisely for eschewing immediate happiness or satisfaction , stands to our hope of making a success of our probation even as our moral behaviour is more ...
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Almost every man will be found to have enlisted | 10 |
Discoursing like an angel living like a | 21 |
The System of Life | 42 |
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