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LECTURE 18 ATTRIBUTES OF SELFISHNESS 11. Falsehood, or lying, is another attribute of selfishness. Falsehood may be objective or subjective. Objective falsehood is that which stands opposed to truth. Subjective…
LECTURE 17 ATTRIBUTES OF SELFISHNESS Formerly we considered the attributes of benevolence, and also what states of the sensibility and of the intellect, and also what outward actions, were implied…
LECTURE 16 WHAT CONSTITUTES DISOBEDIENCE TO MORAL LAW In discussing this question, I will, Show in what disobedience to moral law cannot consist. 1. It cannot consist in malevolence, or…
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…