The Virtues: The Stanton Lectures 1973-74CUP Archive, 21.04.1977 - 173 Seiten Discusses four cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, and courage, and the three theological virtues of faith, hope and charity. Claims moral precepts are absolute, utilitarianism is to be shunned, and sex apart from marriage is poison. |
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in particular is not to my mind a revisable thesis | 2 |
not egoistic | 8 |
mans activities can be brought under a scheme | 9 |
needed in any largescale worthy enterprise | 16 |
who lack faith cannot properly understand | 21 |
lative privileges but a deadly proneness to evil | 24 |
separate bit of life originating from man is | 30 |
thought unconceptualizable and men can | 32 |
this is a Jewish idea the covenant | 53 |
death and resurrection is a matter of what | 57 |
again should not cause us any real worry | 64 |
tion of justice and prudence to God depends | 70 |
is necessarily a Trinity It is a radical confusion | 76 |
sidered separately It may indeed be shown that | 108 |
no longer know when we are lying the evil | 114 |
if he lets the other fellow know of his changed | 118 |
in a Person is misconceived a mans trust cannot | 37 |
truth in emergencies that tempt us to abandon it | 43 |
we have no ground for confidence that we shall | 45 |
are a promulgation of Gods Law and | 48 |
by natural processes is of no religious import | 52 |
e g extravagance and fussiness A glutton need | 133 |
the great good of marriage as a special remedy | 146 |
never know when it will be absolutely demanded | 153 |
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