The Works of Thomas Reid : With Account of His Life And Writings
The book The Works of Thomas Reid : With Account of His Life And Writings was written by author Stewart, Dugald, 1753-1828 Here you can read free online of The Works of Thomas Reid : With Account of His Life And Writings book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Works of Thomas Reid : With Account of His Life And Writings a good or bad book?
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Or, ' Whether an action, done without any regard to duty or to the dictates of conscience, can be entitled to moral approbation ? In every action of a moral agent, his conscience is! either altogether silent, or it pronounces the action to; be good, or bad, or indifferent. This, I think, is a complete enumeration. If it be perfectly silent, the action must be very trifling, or appear so. For con- seience^ in those who have exercised it, is a very prag- 336 ESSAY V. niatlcal feculty, and meddles... wi(h every' part of our eon- duet, whether we desire its counsel or not. And what a man does in perfect simplicity, without the least suspicion of its being bad, his heart cannot condemn him for, nor will he that knows the heart condemn liim. If there was any previous culpable negligence or inattention which led him to a wrong judgment, op hindered his forming a right one, that I do not excul- pate. I only consider the action done, and the disposi- tion with which it was done, without its previous cir- cumstances.
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