Still, this victory of taste over brutish affections is by no means a moral action, and the freedom which the will acquires by the intervention of taste is as yet in no way a moral liberty.
But every time that a strong will towards good becomes the principle of an action, we are really in presence of a moral action.
But suppose that the prisoner had triumphed over the temptation only out of respect for justice, there could be no doubt the action would have been a moral action.
The tendency of Greek thought was to regard man as a self-centred being; to look for the springs of moral action, and the power of progress, within human nature itself.
But in connection with these faculties there is a sort of activity which involves them all, and without which there can be no moral action, namely, the activity of conscience.
Ideal or moral action is action in the line of the greatest resistance.
The Kantian or absolutistic position, by its emphasis on the indefeasible and unwavering character of moral action, suggests something that rouses admiration from common sense, unsophisticated by moral theory.
In its emphasis on the autonomy and integrity of moral action, even its opponents credit the Kantian or absolutistic position with having hit upon a genuinely moral aspect of human action.
Still they are not yet theoretical dogmas, but as Kant calls them practical postulates, necessary premises of moral action.
The doctrine of the soul, considering it simply as the basis of a moral action, and leaving out of view all questions of concrete ethics, forms a constituent element in the Platonic physics.
If the first relation were real, it would give us fear and hope as principles of moral action; but this cannot be, and we are therefore left alone to the second.
Whether a Circumstance Places a Moral Action in the Species of Good or Evil?
Now, so far as moral action is concerned, how does this differ from materialism?
MY last number was an attempt to prove that God created man with a spontaneous power of moral action; and that this was the only ground of his moral responsibility.
Does the power of moral action, independent of the magistracy and the laws, destroy all the control of the civil government over malefactors?
BY what has been said on the theory of Calvinistic predestination, it will be seen, I think, that this system involves such necessity of moral action as is incompatible with free agency.
Pleasure is the consequence, not the end of moral action.
Heathen systems of morality are in general defective, in that they furnish for man's moral action no sufficient example, rule, motive, or end.
He finds in God no motive, and love to God is not so much as mentioned as the source of moral action.
Slavery creates a paradox in the moral system--it exhibits rational, accountable, and immortal beings, in such circumstances as scarcely to leave them the power of moral action.
In this section, therefore, we shall be engaged in a discussion of the ideals, laws, and springs of moral action.
No one could practically apply this standard, if he could define it, as a test of moral action.
What is this, but a positive assertion, that a moral action of a mixed character is an impossibility?
Of moral action, however, we have as yet heard nothing.
The moral instincts are always the basis of moral action, but "custom, tradition, education" become mixed with them.
Moral action is usually recognized in the renunciation of a strong personal gratification for the sake of some social or other altruistic end.
I do not, of course, mean to say that it is possible to apply a mechanical rule and measure to moral action in the manner of Catholic casuistry, according to which it is a venial sin to steal 19s.
Let us look back a moment to the analysis of moral action which we made in the preceding chapters.
Moral action then, I conceive, as a certain kind of life-promoting action.
He assumes throughout that the pleasant is the opposite of what is painful, and seems unaware of the difficulty of determining by means of terms so highly abstract the specific character of moral action.
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