The Virtues: The Stanton Lectures 1973-74Discusses 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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Contents
in particular is not to my mind a revisable thesis | 2 |
our Inclinations to our Sense of Duty The con | 8 |
mans activities can be brought under a scheme | 9 |
health and sanity are | 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 |
death and resurrection is a matter of what | 57 |
Hope | 62 |
again should not cause us any real worry | 64 |
tion of justice and prudence to God depends | 69 |
to how a solitary person could either exist or love | 75 |
is necessarily a Trinity It is a radical confusion | 76 |
are a promulgation of Gods Law and | 108 |
no longer know when we are lying the evil | 114 |
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 |
by natural processes is of no religious import | 52 |
creatures they make known their petitions | 53 |
rotten foundation | 118 |
e g extravagance and fussiness A glutton need | 133 |
parent apart from the JudaeoChristian tradition | 146 |
never know when it will be absolutely demanded | 153 |
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| Title | The Virtues: The Stanton Lectures 1973-74 Stanton lectures The Stanton lectures 1973/74 |
| Author | Peter Geach |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | CUP Archive, 1977 |
| ISBN | 0521213509, 9780521213509 |
| Length | 173 pages |
| Subjects | › Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy Philosophy / General |
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