 For, the thought that our dead parents or friends would have approved our conduct is a scarcely less powerful motive than the knowledge that our living ones do approve it: and the idea that Socrates, or Howard or Washington, or Antoninus, or Christ, would...  Reflections of a Russian Statesman - Page 171by Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonost︠s︡ev - 1898 - 271 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Stuart Mill - Nature - 1874 - 328 pages
...and the idea that Socrates, or Howard or Washington, or Antoninus, or Christ, would have sympathized with us, or that we are attempting to do our part...convictions. To call these sentiments by the name morality, exclusively of any other title, is claiming too little for them. They are a real religion... | |
 | Thomas Gribble - 1880 - 488 pages
...of all those dead or living whom we admire or venerate ; for the thought that our dead parents and friends would have approved our conduct is a scarcely...claiming too little for them. They are a real religion ; of which, as of other religions, outward good works (the utmost meaning usually suggested by the... | |
 | Apologetics - 1888 - 492 pages
...irreverent) the idea that Socrates, or Howard, or Washington, or Antoninus, or Christ would have sympathized with us, or that we are attempting to do our part...act up to their highest feelings and convictions." It is impossible to doubt the sincerity and honesty of conviction with which these views are presented... | |
 | Ernest Albee - 1902 - 450 pages
...that Socrates, or Antoninus, or Christ would have sympathised with us and have approved our actions, " has operated on the very best minds, as a strong incentive...to act up to their highest feelings and convictions ". 1 And here follows one of the most impressive passages to be found in Mill's philosophical writings.... | |
 | Jonathan Riley - Business & Economics - 1988 - 424 pages
...and the idea that Socrates, or Howard or Washington, or Antoninus, or Christ, would have sympathized with us, or that we are attempting to do our part...convictions. To call these sentiments by the name morality, exclusively of any other title, is claiming too little for them. They are a real religion;... | |
 | Maurice Cowling - History - 1990 - 220 pages
...that Socrates, or Howard, or Washington, or Antoninus, or Christ would have sympathised with us . . . has operated on the very best minds as a strong incentive to act up to their highest feelings and convictions'.1 It is this combination of certainty that these are the best men, that they are advocating... | |
 | Joseph Hamburger - Philosophy - 2001 - 260 pages
..."the idea that Socrates, or Howard or Washington, or Antoninus, or Christ, would have sympathi/.ed with us, or that we are attempting to do our part...incentive to act up to their highest feelings and convictions."12" Other candidates for heroic status included Pericles, Marcus Aurelius, and Turgot;... | |
 | Linda C. Raeder - Philosophy - 2002 - 418 pages
...that "Socrates, or Howard, or Washington, or Antoninus, or Christ, would have sympathized with us, ... has operated on the very best minds, as a strong incentive...act up to their highest feelings and convictions." The "very best minds" require no more transcendent motivation than the imaginative approval of the... | |
 | Victoria Kahn, Neil Saccamano, Daniela Coli - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 321 pages
...that Socrates, or Howard or Washington, or Antoninus, or Christ, would have sympathized with us ... has operated on the very best minds, as a strong incentive...act up to their highest feelings and convictions" (421). Even though Mill's "Religion of Humanity" takes humanity rather than divinity as godhead, it... | |
 | Education - 1902 - 866 pages
...writes : The idea that Socrates or Howard or Washington or Antoninus or Christ would have sympathized with us, or that we are attempting to do our part...convictions. To call these sentiments by the name morality exclusively of any other title is claiming far too little for them. They are a real religion.... | |
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