The Elements of Morality Including Polity volume 1
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XV. ] CASES OF CONSCIENCE. 251 to make the Promise, it is a Duty to keep it. And this Rule is so obvious a one, and its application so direct, that we may wonder that any other should have been taken.
The reasons given for doubt, or for the opposite decision, are various. Thus Cicero says*, that with robbers, we have no tie of common faith or obligation. But we shall, of course, answer, that we keep our word, not as what is due to robbers, but as what is due to ourselves, and necessary to our c...haracter of truthful men : not as what is an act of obligation to them, but an act of reverence to truth. We may add, that we can hardly say that we have no ties of common obligation with them, when we have made them a promise, and have received life and liberty as a consi- deration for it. We make a Contract with them, though it may be an informal one. They fulfil their part of the Contract : if we do not fulfil ours, we shall take a very strange way of exemplifying our asserted moral superiority over them.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
XV. ] CASES OF CONSCIENCE. 251 to make the Promise, it is a Duty to keep it. And this Rule is so obvious a one, and its application so direct, that we may wonder that any other should have been taken.
The reasons given for doubt, or for the opposite decision, are various. Thus Cicero says*, that with robbers, we have no tie of common faith or obligation. But we shall, of course, answer, that we keep our word, not as what is due to robbers, but as what is due to ourselves, and necessary to our c...haracter of truthful men : not as what is an act of obligation to them, but an act of reverence to truth. We may add, that we can hardly say that we have no ties of common obligation with them, when we have made them a promise, and have received life and liberty as a consi- deration for it. We make a Contract with them, though it may be an informal one. They fulfil their part of the Contract : if we do not fulfil ours, we shall take a very strange way of exemplifying our asserted moral superiority over them.
What to read after The Elements of Morality Including Polity volume 1?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by William Whewell to read onlineMoreLess
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