[lit-ideas] Re: Inner Moral :Law
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 06:13:31 EDT
<<Or, as my Daddy used to say when I said, "I didn't mean to"â"You
didn't mean not to.">>
It must be a generational thing..... if I had a nickel for every time my
Mother said that.... and I catch myself copying it to my kids.
carry on scientifically now
Julie Krueger
========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Inner Moral :Law
Date: 8/3/05 8:46:12 P.M. Central Daylight Time From: _mccreery@xxxxxxxx
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On 2005/08/04, at 9:00, Robert Paul wrote:
> 'If then whereas we wish for our end, the means to our end are
> matters of deliberation and choice, it follows that actions dealing
> with these means are done by choice, and voluntary. But the
> activities in which the virtues are exercised deal with means.
> Therefore virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice.
> For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from
> acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say
> Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do
> it is right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to
> do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a
> thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it. But if it is
> in our power to do and to refrain from doing right and wrong, and
> if, as we saw,1 being good or bad is doing right or wrong, it
> consequently depends on us whether we are virtuous or vicious.
Or, as my Daddy used to say when I said, "I didn't mean to"â"You
didn't mean not to."
John
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