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Joseph Butler
Joseph Butler
English Clergyman
Born: May 18, 1692
Died: Jun 16, 1752
Compassion Every Good Happiness Man Nature
Related authors: George Whitefield John Wesley Matthew Henry Sydney Smith Thomas Becket Thomas Fuller William Inge William Pollard
Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed. Joseph Butler
Compassion Mind Pain Our Ourselves Distressed Misery Puts Sorrow Well Debt Owe Us Right Assistance
Happiness does not consist in self-love. Joseph Butler
Happiness Consist Does Self-Love
God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect. Joseph Butler
God Passion Affection Added Unmoved Ours Neither More Sees Unchanged Perfect He Almighty Like Sure Nor Hears God Almighty Infinitely Any Senses Then Manner Appetite Things
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves. Joseph Butler
Happiness Good Rest Seeks Only Never Particular Call Principle Self-Love Sake Affections Anything Themselves Means Thing Things External External Things
The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else. Joseph Butler
Heart Affection Sense Every Else Object Objects Somewhat Self Term Particular Equally Because Self-Love Interested Disinterested Them Expressed Appetite
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice. Joseph Butler
Injustice Made About Tempting Purposes Employed Perjury May Deceiving Vice Serve Tongue
Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown. Joseph Butler
Nature Human Nature Other Stated Several Objects Part Thus Particular Principles Self-Love Human Ends Themselves Shown
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. Joseph Butler
Happiness Man Own Every Hath Objects General Variety Particular Likewise Passions His Affections Appetites Every Man Desire External
Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree. Joseph Butler
Natural Degree Every Our Easily Possibly Hath Exceeded Bound Passions Affections May Whereas Which Measure
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. Joseph Butler
Happiness Nature Suited Our Several Those Consists Objects Only Particular Passions Affections Which Satisfaction Appetites Enjoyment
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else. Joseph Butler
Love Respect Hatred Else Our Distant Neighbour More Self-Love Than Same Just Anything Anything Else Then
Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature. Joseph Butler
Nature Man Way Strongest Proper Principle Real His According May Happens Which Act Inclination Disproportionate Present Violate
People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable. Joseph Butler
Love People Miserable Affection Extremely Entire Unbounded Most Might Themselves
The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery. Joseph Butler
Compassion Final Relieve Prevent Misery Causes Then
The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world. Joseph Butler
Happiness Nature Man Respect World Single Sum Considered Only Attain He Leads Him Himself Greatest Greatest Happiness His Plainly Capacity Whole Present Present World Adapted
This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words. Joseph Butler
Death Man Words Mind State Say Righteous He Like His End Die Might Who Last Desired

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