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The most memorable lines from my first read of this smart work are from the second sermon, first page, quoted as follows: "A man can as little doubt whether his eyes were given him to see with, as he can doubt of the truth of the science of optics deduced from ocular experiments. And allowing the inward feeling, shame, a man can as little doubt whether it was given him to prevent his doing shameful actions, as he can doubt whether his eyes were given him to guide his steps. And as to these inward feelings themselves - that they are real..."
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When David Hume listed "Dr. Butler" in the Introduction to his Treatise of Human Nature as one of "some late philosophers in England, who have begun to put the science of man on a new footing," he was judging Butler on the strength of a few sermons preached at the Rolls Chapel and published as part of a collection in 1726. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
inward frame, particular appetites, ill desert, inward principles, general temper, particular affection, superior principle, particular passions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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When David Hume listed "Dr. Butler" in the Introduction to his Treatise of Human Nature as one of "some late philosophers in England, who have begun to put the science of man on a new footing," he was judging Butler on the strength of a few sermons preached at the Rolls Chapel and published as part of a collection in 1726. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
inward frame, particular appetites, ill desert, inward principles, general temper, particular affection, superior principle, particular passions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Butler's Ethics, Rolls Chapel, Supreme Being New!
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- Fifteen Sermons by Joseph Butler on page 1, page 8, and page 9
- The Analogy of Religion by Joseph Butler on page 8, and page 9
- Human Nature by Thomas Hobbes on page 26
- Five Types of Ethical Theory (International Library of Philosophy and Scientific Method) by Charlie Dunbar Broad on page 9
- Bishop Butler and the Age of Reason by Ernest Campbell Mossner on page 9
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- Human Welfare and Moral Worth: Kantian Perspectives by Thomas E. Hill on 7 pages
- Human Welfare and Moral Worth: Kantian Perspectives by Thomas E. Hill on 5 pages
- Self-Interest: Volume 14, Part 1 (Social Philosophy and Policy) by Ellen Frankel Paul on 5 pages
- Human Nature, Ritual, and History: Studies in Xunzi and Chinese Philosophy (Studies in Philosophy & the History of Philosophy) by A. S. Cua on 5 pages
- Human Happiness and Morality: A Brief Introduction to Ethics by Robert F. Almeder on 4 pages
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