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LECTURE 15 ATTRIBUTES OF LOVE 15. Patience is another attribute of benevolence. This term is frequently used to express a phenomenon of the sensibility. When thus used, it designates a…

LECTURE 14 ATTRIBUTES OF LOVE 12. Mercy is also an attribute of benevolence. This term expresses a state of feeling, and represents a phenomenon of the sensibility. Mercy is often…

LECTURE 13 ATTRIBUTES OF LOVE 8. Efficiency is another attribute or characteristic of benevolence. Benevolence consists in choice, intention. Now we know from consciousness that choice or intention constitutes the…

LECTURE 12 ATTRIBUTES OF LOVE It has been shown that the sum and spirit of the whole law is properly expressed in one word love. It has also been shown,…

LECTURE 11 OBEDIENCE TO THE MORAL LAW We have seen, that all the law requires is summarily expressed in the single word, love, that this word is synonymous with benevolence;…

LECTURE 10 OBEDIENCE ENTIRE The government of God accepts nothing as virtue but obedience to the law of God. But it may be asked, Why state this proposition? Was this…

LECTURE 9 UNITY OF MORAL ACTION Can obedience to moral law be partial? What constitutes obedience to moral law? We have seen in former lectures, that disinterested benevolence is all…

LECTURE 8 FOUNDATION OF MORAL OBLIGATION THE PRACTICAL TENDENCY OF THE VARIOUS THEORIES It has already been observed that this is a highly practical question, and one of surpassing interest…

LECTURE 7 FOUNDATION OF MORAL OBLIGATION I now come to consider the philosophy which teaches that moral order is the foundation of moral obligation. But what is moral order? The…

LECTURE 6 FOUNDATION OF MORAL OBLIGATION I now enter upon the discussion of the theory, that the goodness, or moral excellence of God is the foundation of moral obligation. To…