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. |
Contents
but in saying this I am not making the 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 |
creatures they make known their petitions | 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 |
must be ready for a call to do great things | 153 |
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alternative Anaxagoras Antony Flew anyhow apostasy Aquinas argued argument Aristotle ascribed attain behavioural virtue believe Boethius C. S. Lewis called cephalopod chance chapter charity chief end Christ Christadelphians Christian claim consequences corrupt courage course covenants dead death Divine doctrine eternal evil example exists fact faith false father free choice God's Gospel grace greatest happiness greatest number Hobbes hope human Hymenaios inconsistency individual judge judgment justice justice as fairness Kingdom language laws live logical lying man's matter McTaggart means mind moral never Norman Malcolm Original Sin P. T. GEACH philosophers physical Platonic possible promise prudence question Quine's rational creatures reason regard reject religion resurrection Saints Sawney Bean Schopenhauer sense separated soul sexual Socinians sort Spinoza suicide Summa Theologica suppose teaching teleology temperance theory thesis things thought tion tradition Trinity true trust truth vice wisdom words wrong