A Course of Lectures Introductory to the Study of Moral Philosophy
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What, then, is the reason of this difference Digitized by Google LECTURE V. 147 between the conclusions respectively formed by these two classes of philosophers ? Evi- dently, in one case, there is a fundamental conviction of the uniformity of the facts of nature ; in the other case, there is as strong a conviction of the contingency and variableness of moral facts. I speak of uniformity as dis- tinct from immutable necessity, and of con- tingency and variableness, as distinct from random force... and capricious uncertainty, which would preclude all scientific knowledge.
For neither does the physical inquirer suppose that the facts which he examines mmt be as they are ; he is only sure that they will be so always. Nor does the moral philosopher sup- pose that there is no limit to the variation of moral facts ; but only that the range is wide, and the limit of them very difficult to be cir- cumscribed with exactness.
The ancients, indeed, for the most part, (perhaps all, with the exception of Aristotle, who is himself not quite free from the preju- dice,) contrasted physical and moral truth by broad characteristics of this kind, referring the former to the class of necessary immutable truths, the latter to the class of truths contin- gent, or only holding for the most part; making an essential difference where there is l2 Digitized by Google 148 LECTURE V.
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What, then, is the reason of this difference Digitized by Google LECTURE V. 147 between the conclusions respectively formed by these two classes of philosophers ? Evi- dently, in one case, there is a fundamental conviction of the uniformity of the facts of nature ; in the other case, there is as strong a conviction of the contingency and variableness of moral facts. I speak of uniformity as dis- tinct from immutable necessity, and of con- tingency and variableness, as distinct from random force... and capricious uncertainty, which would preclude all scientific knowledge.
For neither does the physical inquirer suppose that the facts which he examines mmt be as they are ; he is only sure that they will be so always. Nor does the moral philosopher sup- pose that there is no limit to the variation of moral facts ; but only that the range is wide, and the limit of them very difficult to be cir- cumscribed with exactness.
The ancients, indeed, for the most part, (perhaps all, with the exception of Aristotle, who is himself not quite free from the preju- dice,) contrasted physical and moral truth by broad characteristics of this kind, referring the former to the class of necessary immutable truths, the latter to the class of truths contin- gent, or only holding for the most part; making an essential difference where there is l2 Digitized by Google 148 LECTURE V.
What to read after A Course of Lectures Introductory to the Study of Moral Philosophy?
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