 | Charles H. Betts - New Jerusalem Church - 1911 - 228 pages
...rules of morality is what is properly called a sense of duty ; a principle of greatest consequence in human life, and the only principle by which the bulk...their actions. . . . Without this sacred regard to the general rules of morality, there is no man whose conduct can be much depended upon. It is this... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 872 pages
...be done or to be avoided. " These general rules of conduct are of great importance. They represent the only principle "by which the bulk of mankind are capable of directing their actions . . ."" The picture which emerges from Adam Smith's discussion in The Theory of Moral Sentiments is... | |
 | David Daiches Raphael - Philosophy - 1991 - 448 pages
...conduct, is what is properly 820 called a sense of duty, a principle of the greatest consequence in human life, and the only principle by which the bulk...of mankind are capable of directing their actions. Many men behave very decently, and through the whole of their lives avoid any considerable degree of... | |
 | Robin Paul Malloy, Jerry Evensky - Business & Economics - 1994 - 250 pages
...of conduct, is what is properly called a sense of duty, a principle of the greatest consequence in human life, and the only principle by which the bulk...of mankind are capable of directing their actions . . . The coarse clay of which the bulk of mankind are formed, cannot be wrought up to such perfection... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - Business & Economics - 1995 - 292 pages
...these general rules of morality is felt as "a sense of duty, a principle of the greatest consequence in human life, and the only principle by which the bulk...of mankind are capable of directing their actions." 19 It is through this often unarticulated sense of duty that men acquire the reliable and stable characters... | |
 | R. H. Coase - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 234 pages
...or to be avoided" (p. 1 59). These general rules of conduct are of great importance. They represent the only principle "by which the bulk of mankind are capable of directing their actions" (p. 162). The picture which emerges from Adam Smith's discussion in The Theory of M oral Sentiments... | |
 | Wendy Motooka - Economics - 1998 - 302 pages
...individuals to genetal tules. "Without this sacted tegatd to genetal tules," Smith declates, thete is no man whose conduct can be much depended upon. It is this which constitutes the most essential diffetence between a man of ptinciple and honout and a wotthless fellow. The one adhetes, on all occasions,... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - Philosophy - 1999 - 452 pages
...concerning what is fit and proper to be done in our particular situation'.5 Indeed, these rules are 'the only principle by which the bulk of mankind are capable of 1 TMS, 3, 1, p. 190. • Ibid., p. 193. ' TMS, 3, 8, p. 231. « TMS, 3, 4. p. 266. • Ibid., p. 273.... | |
 | Business & Economics - 2000 - 456 pages
...of conduct is " what is properly called a sense of duty, a principle of the greatest consequence in human life, and the only principle by which the bulk of mankind are capable of directing their actions."1 " Upon the tolerable observance of these duties depends the very existence of human society,"... | |
 | Wei-Bin Zhang - Religion - 2000 - 164 pages
...follows: The regard to those general rules of conduct is what is properly called a sense of duty, ... the only principle by which the bulk of mankind are capable of directing their actions. (TMS: 161-2) This implies that first-order virtue is not useful among the bulk of mankind in reality.... | |
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THE regard to those general rules of conduct is what is properly called a sense of duty, a principle of the greatest consequence in human life, and the only principle by which the bulk of mankind are capable of directing their actions. 
