| 1900 - 836 páginas
...principle and foundation of all virtue and worth is placed in this; that a man is able to deny himself of his own desires, cross his own inclinations, and purely follow what reason directs as best, though the appetite lean the other way." Recommends Foreign Travel. — Locke also agrees with Montaigne... | |
| Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - 1921 - 704 páginas
...Locke, in inculcating the acquisition of virtue, seems to have in mind, (1) "Self-restraint." He says, "as the strength of the body lies chiefly in being...principle and foundation of all virtue and worth is placed in this, that a man has to deny himself his own desires," etc.1" "He that has not a mastery... | |
| John Marshall - 1994 - 514 páginas
...true principle of virtue. The 'great Principle and Foundation of all Vertue and Worth' was 'placed in this, That a Man is able to deny himself his own...Inclinations, and purely follow what reason directs as best'. Men's 'Natural Propensity' was to 'indulge Corporal and present Pleasure', the 'root from whence spring... | |
| Naomi Zack - 1996 - 268 páginas
...necessary foundation for his program of the mind (based presumably on his philosophical and social wisdom). As the Strength of the Body lies chiefly in being...Mind. And the great Principle and Foundation of all Vertue and Worth, is placed in this, That a Man is able to deny himself \\\s own Desires, cross his... | |
| John Locke - 1996 - 516 páginas
...also does that of the mind. And the great principle and foundation of all virtue and worth is placed in this, that a man is able to deny himself his own...inclinations, and purely follow what reason directs as best though the appetite lean the other way. §34. The great mistake I have observed in people's breeding... | |
| Joshua Foa Dienstag - 1997 - 292 páginas
...could hardly be considered a virtue. Labor is moral because it is opposed, not to thought, but to sin: "As the strength of the body lies chiefly in being...principle and foundation of all virtue and worth is placed in this, that a man is able to deny himself his own desires, cross his own inclinations, and... | |
| Nathan Tarcov - 1999 - 292 páginas
...of the mind, the same instrumental treatment that was given to bodily health is explicitly applied: As the Strength of the Body lies chiefly in being...Mind. And the great Principle and Foundation of all Vertue and Worth, is placed in this, That a Man is able to deny himself his own Desires, cross his... | |
| Peter Berkowitz - 2000 - 256 páginas
...things are defined by reason: "the great principle and foundation of all virtue and worth is placed in this, that a man is able to deny himself his own...inclinations, and purely follow what reason directs as best, though the appetite lean the other way."108 The work of education consists in making desire "subject... | |
| Richard A. Barney - 1999 - 442 páginas
...supervisory role as writer/teacher: [T]he great Principle and Foundation of all Vertue and Worth, is placed in this, That a Man is able to deny himself his own Desires. . . . The great Mistake I have observed in People's breeding their Children has been, that this has... | |
| Antonio T. De Nicolás - 2000 - 582 páginas
...thing is done awkwardly, the common saying will pass upon them, that it's suitable to their breeding. As the strength of the body lies chiefly in being...foundation of all virtue and worth is plac'd in this: that man is able to deny himself his own desires, cross his own inclinations, and purely follow what reason... | |
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