 Thus the distinct boundaries and offices of reasen and of taste are easily ascertained. The former conveys the knowledge of truth and falsehood : The latter gives the sentiment of beauty and deformity, vice and virtue. The one discovers objects, as they...  Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects - Page 346by David Hume - 1809Full view - About this book
 | David Hume - Ethics - 1751 - 278 pages
...of Reafin and Tajle are eafily afcertain'd. The former conveys the Knowledge of Truth and Falfhood : The latter gives the Sentiment • of Beauty and Deformity, Vice and Virtue. The one difcovers Objects, as they really fland in Nature, without Addition or Diminution : The other has a... | |
 | Several Hands - 1752 - 508 pages
...fer.timent of beauty and deformity, vice and virtue. The one difcovers objects, as they really {land in nature, without addition or diminution : the other has a productive faculty, and gilding or ftainine; all natural objects with the colours borrowed from internal fentiment, raifesin a man* ner... | |
 | David Hume - Commerce - 1758 - 568 pages
...fentiment of beauty and deformity, vice and virtue. The one di fco vers objects, as they really ftand in nature, without addition or diminution : The other has a productive faculty, and gilding or ftaining all natural objects with the colors, borrowed from internal fentiment, raifes, in a manner,... | |
 | David Hume - Ethics, Modern - 1772 - 556 pages
...reafon'znc, of lajle are cafily afcertained. The former conveys the knowledge of truth and falfehood : The latter gives the Sentiment of beauty and deformity, vice and virtue. The one difcovers objects, as they really (land in nature, 7 without addition or diminution : The other has... | |
 | James Wilson - Law - 1804 - 494 pages
...embraces one, and rejects the other. Thus are the offices of reason and of the moral sense at last ascertained. The former conveys the knowledge of truth and falsehood : the latter, the sentiment of beauty and deformity, of vice and virtue. The standard of one, founded on the nature... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1811 - 590 pages
...morality, as the object, not of reason, but of taste; the distinct offices of which he thus describes: " The former " conveys the knowledge of truth and falsehood:...vice and " virtue. The one discovers objects, as they reaiiy stand " in nature, without addition or diminution: the other has " a productive quality, and,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1814 - 560 pages
...statements of this limitation which I can recollect : " Thus, the distinct boundaries and offices of reason and of taste are easily ascertained. The former conveys...sentiment of beauty and deformity, — vice and virtue. Reason, being cool and disengaged, is no motive to action, and directs only the impulse received from... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Logic - 1814 - 582 pages
...of this limitation which I can recollect : " Thus, the distinct boundaries and offices of reason " and of taste are easily ascertained. The former conveys...knowledge of truth and falsehood ; the latter gives the senti" ment of beauty and deformity, — vice and virtue. Reason, " being cool and disengaged, is no... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1816 - 644 pages
...morality as the object, not of reason, but of taste ; the distinct offices of which he thus describes: " The former conveys the knowledge of truth and "falsehood...of beauty " and deformity, vice and virtue. The one dis" covers objects, as they really stand in nature, " without addition or diminution ; the other has... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 528 pages
...and which embraces the one and rejects the other. Thus the distinct boundaries and offices of reason and of taste are easily ascertained. The former conveys...diminution : The other has a productive faculty ; and gliding or staining all natural objects with the colours borrowed from internal sentiment, raises,... | |
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