Quotes Flashcards
Quote by Kant on deontology - two things…
Two things fill the mind with wonder and awe; the starry heavens above and the moral law within
Quote by van gough which was against Kant
The little emotions are the great captains of our lives
Quote by Aristotle on virtue ethics from nicomachea ethics
For we are enquiring not in order to know what virtue is but in order to become good otherwise our enquiry would be of no use
Quote by John Hick on virtue ethics
Virtues are better hard won than ready made
Quote by St Teresa about religious experience
God establishes himself in the interior of this soul in such a way, that when I return to myself, it is wholly impossible for me to doubt that I have been in God and God in me
Quote by Brian Davies on religious experience
Just as I can reasonably say that there is a bed in my room because I have encountered it, so I can reasonably say that there is a God because I have directly encountered Him
Quote by Kant on ontological argument
God is an object of pure thought
Quote by David Hume on ontological argument
We cannot define something into existence - even if it has all the perfection a we can imagine
Quote by Norman Malcolm on ontological argument
… Existence cannot be a perfection of something
Quote by J.A.T Robinson on life after death
Man does not have a body, he is a body… He is flesh-animated-by-soul, the whole conceived as a psycho-physical unity
Quote by René Descartes on Life after Death
Our soul is of a nature entirely dependent of the body and consequently… Is not bound to die with and since we cannot see any other causes that destroy the soul, we are naturally led to conclude that it is immortal
Quote by Kant on life after death
The summum bonum is only possible on the presupposition of the immortality of the soul
Quote by Aristotle on natural moral law
Reason is the true self of every man, since it is the supreme and better part… Reason is, in the highest, a mans self
Quote by Aquinas on Natural Moral law
Natural law is…
Natural law is the same for all men… There is a single standard of truth and right for everyone… Which is known by everyone
Quote by Aquinas to do with primary and secondary precepts
Good is to be done and pursued and evil avoided
