Memoirs, Journal, And Correspondence of Thomas Moore 7
Memoirs, Journal, And Correspondence of Thomas Moore 7
Moore Thomas
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(I have put clearly, I flatter my- self, in the foregoing few lines what it has cost the casti- gator of Mackintosh more than half-a-dozen pages to ex^ plain.) This being the state of the case, let us now ob- serve how Sir James, with much pomp and plausibility, disserts upon the subject* Having given it as his opinion that preceding inquirers had not been very clear in their theories of morals, he proceeds as follows : — "It is little wonder that Cumberland should not have disembroiled this an...cient and established confiision, since Leibnitz himself, in a passage where he reviews the theories of morals which had gone before him, has done his utmost to perpetuate it. ^ It is a question,' says he, * whether the preservation of human society be the first principle of the law of nature.^ This our author* denies, in opposition to Grotius, who laid down sociability to be so, to Hobbes, who ascribed that character to mutual fear, and to Cmnberland, who held that it was mutual benevolence ; which are all three only different names for the safety and welfare of society." " Here the great philosopher," continues Mackintosh, " considered benevolence, or fear, two feelings of the * Meaning Leibnitz.
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