Moral Philosophy by S. J. Joseph Rickaby
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p. 338. To the _Readings_ add _P.M.E_., pp. 102-113. p. 347, middle. Cancel from _one of these prerogatives_ to the end of the sentence. Substitute: _of every polity even in the most infantine condition._ * * * * * MORAL PHILOSOPHY. PART I. ETHICS. CHAPTER I. OF THE OBJECT-MATTER AND PARTITION OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY. 1. Moral Philosophy is the science of human acts in their bearing on human happiness and human duty. 2. Those acts alone are properly called _human_, which a man is master of to do or not to do. A _human act_, then, is an act voluntary and free. A man is what his human acts make him. 3. A _voluntary_ act is an act that proceeds from the will with a knowledge of the end to which the act tends. |
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