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…
Read More »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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Read More »Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites…
Read More »Happiness does not consist in self-love. Joseph Butler
Read More »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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