Some Remains (Hitherto Unpublished) of Joseph Butler, Ll.D.
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I thought proper just to mention these thingsthat you might not suspect me to take advantage from your Civility totrouble you with any thing, but only such objections as seem to me ofWeight, and which I cannot get rid of any other way. A disposition inour natures to be influenced by right motives is as absolutely necessaryto render us moral Agents, as a Capacity to discern right motives is. These two are I think quite _distinct_ perceptions, the _former_proceeding from a desire inseparable from... a Conscious Being of its ownhappiness, the _latter_ being only our Understanding, or Faculty ofseeing Truth. Since a _disposition_ to be influenced by right motives isa _sine qua non_ to Virtuous Actions, an Indifferency to right motivesmust _incapacitate_ us for Virtuous Actions, or render us in thatparticular not moral agents. I do indeed think that no Rational Creatureis _strictly speaking Indifferent_ to Right Motives, but yet there seemsto be somewhat which to all intents of the present question is the same, viz.
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