Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.…
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The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect…
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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means…
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Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular…
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Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites…
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Happiness does not consist in self-love. Joseph Butler
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The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone therefore the…
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Joseph Butler (18 May 1692 – 16 June 1752) was an English bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher. He was born…
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