...be treated in two different methods; describe and contrast them. PROFESSOR WEBB. BUTLER'S SERMONS. 1. "There are two ways in which the subject of Morals may be treated." Compare these methods, and point out the manner in which they mutually presuppose each other. 2. Butler...

...illustrations of what seemed most to require them, I myself am by no means a proper judge. — — There are two ways in which the subject of morals...the abstract relations of things : the other from a mattfic. of fact^ namely, what the particular nature of man is, its several parts, their economy or...

...appears to have been the source of the above-named huge defect in his theory of ethics. For he says, ' There are two ways in which the subject of morals...whence it proceeds to determine what course of life it in u-htch is correspondent to this ichule nature? Now, as we shall hereafter more plainly see, these...

...of a watch, it appears that its nature, ie, constitution or system, is adapted to measure time." " There are two ways in which the subject of morals may be treated. One begins from enquiring into the abstract relations of things ; the other from a matter of fact, namely, what the...

...Butler in the Preface to his Sermons, "in which the subject of morals maybe treated. One begins by inquiring into the abstract relations of things, the...from a matter of fact, namely, what the particular irature of man is, its several parts, their economy or constitution, from whence it proceeds to determine...

...well as Clarke. Butler (1692-1752) in some degree combined both lines of argument. He tells us " that there are two ways in which the subject of morals...from inquiring into the abstract relations of things [Clarke, etc.] : the other from a matter of fact, namely, what the particular nature of man is, its...

...3. In what way is the Argument from Final Causes employed in the Ethics, and by Bishop Butler ? 4. "There are two ways in which the subject of morals may be treated." What are the two ways here referred to, and what are their respective merits ? Compare them with the...

...inquiring into the abstract relations of things [which is the system of C'udworth, Clarke, and Wollaston] ; the other from a matter of fact, — namely, what...of life it is which is correspondent to this whole na-_ ture. In the former method, the conclusion is expressed thus, that vice is contrary to the nature...

...argument afterwards developed in that work. 'There are two ways,' he observes in his preface, ' in which morals may be treated : ' — ' One begins from inquiring into the abstract relations of things [which is the system of Cudworth, Clarke, and Wollaston] ; the other from a matter of fact, — namely,...

...realization of the true self. '.X BUTLER, BUTLER'S CONCEPTION OF VIRTUE. "There are," says Butler, "two ways in which the subject of morals may be treated....relations of things: the other from a matter of fact, what the particular nature of man is, its several parts, their economy or constitution; from whence...