The Works of Leonard Woods, D.D.: Essays & sermonsJ.D. Flagg & W.H. Wardwell, 1850 - Congregational churches |
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... moral agency , or to inquire into the grounds of moral obligation , as ministers often do at the present day ? Did they not always assume it as a thing too evident to need any proof , that man is a moral agent , and in duty bound to ...
... moral agency , or to inquire into the grounds of moral obligation , as ministers often do at the present day ? Did they not always assume it as a thing too evident to need any proof , that man is a moral agent , and in duty bound to ...
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... moral agency , and that it was just and reasonable they should be under law ... agent , there is little prospect of convincing him by philosophical reason ... moral obligation can- not be at all necessary . To pursue such an inquiry in ...
... moral agency , and that it was just and reasonable they should be under law ... agent , there is little prospect of convincing him by philosophical reason ... moral obligation can- not be at all necessary . To pursue such an inquiry in ...
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... moral agents , not by asserting the fact of their moral agency , nor by ... agent , and under perfect obligation to obey the divine law , is so evident ... moral existence , and their high moral obligations . But what is the best manner ...
... moral agents , not by asserting the fact of their moral agency , nor by ... agent , and under perfect obligation to obey the divine law , is so evident ... moral existence , and their high moral obligations . But what is the best manner ...
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... moral . The question in the more proper and exact form , is not , how does such and such a faculty act ; but how does man act ; or how does the mind act ? What we call the faculties of the mind , are not so many different agents . There ...
... moral . The question in the more proper and exact form , is not , how does such and such a faculty act ; but how does man act ; or how does the mind act ? What we call the faculties of the mind , are not so many different agents . There ...
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... moral qualities , as in regard to actions . These qualities belong to the moral being , man . But in common ... agent . Had we stood by , and witnessed the act of theft or murder , the real object of our disapprobation and abhorrence would ...
... moral qualities , as in regard to actions . These qualities belong to the moral being , man . But in common ... agent . Had we stood by , and witnessed the act of theft or murder , the real object of our disapprobation and abhorrence would ...
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