An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 15
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- mud practicat Principles
- HI A P.
- No innate practical Principles.
- S. T. YF thole speculatire Maxims, Whereot wediscoured in te Fore. BO
- ing ChapEer, have nOt an actual universal assent trom aII Man
- kind, as ve there proved, ic is much more visible concernine practicat
- Principles, that ther come Bori of an univer sal Reception: and P’Think it
- will be hard co instance anr one moral Rule, wtrich can pretend co (0
- general and reacy an alsent as, What is, is, or eo be lo manifest a Truth as
- this. That it is impossible for the same thing tobe, and not to be. Whereby
- it is eridene, That chey are Partherremoved trom a ritlero be innate; and
- ehe doube os their beine natire Impressions on che Mind, is Aronger a
- sainst chese moral Principles than the other. NOL chat it brings their
- Truch at all in question. They are equally true, thoushr not equally evi
- dene. Thole speculatire Mlaxims carry cheir ovn Evidence wich ttiem.
- Due moral Principles require Realonino and Discourle, and Lome Fxereile
- ot the Mind, to discover the Certainer of cheir Truth. Ther lic noc
- open as natural Characters ingraven on the Mind; wrtich il any such
- avere, they ust necds be visible by themlelres, and by cheir ovn ligne
- be certain and knOwn to ererr Bodr. Buc chis is no Derogation to cheir
- Truthand Certainer, no more than it is tothe Fruth or Cerrainey oFthe
- Three Anolesot a Prianole beins equal to tuo rixtut ones becaule it is not
- Io erident as The whole is bieper than a parr;nor lo apt eobe asseneed eo ae
- Airst hearino. Je may suttice, that chese morat Rules are capable et De-
- onstration: and cheretore ic is our on Faults, iF WO COMO HOLIO a Cer-
- tain Rnomledoe oF them. But che Tgnorance rherein many Men dre ot
- them, and FhC NOnels OF alsent hereWitM OtHerS receire tHeMI, are
- panifest Proots that they are not innate, and such as offer chemselves to
- cheir riem without scarching.
- 5. 2. Whether there be any such morat Principles, Wrherein all Nen do
- doree, Pappeal coanr, Who hare been bue moderatels convertant in the
- Flistorr oF Mantind, and looled abroad beyond the Smoake of their own
- Chimners. Where is thar practical Fruth, that is univertally received
- wichourdoube or question, as ic must be it innare: Justice, and Keepins of
- Contracts, is, thac Wrhich most Men seem to acree in. Thisis a Principle,
- which is chouohe to extend it selF to the Dens ot Phieres, and ene TroOpS
- OE RobberS; ard ther wrho have gone Parthest torvards the puttins otos
- Flumanier ic selF, Kecp Faith and Rules ot Justice onc with anocher.
- rant chat Outlas themlelres do this onc amonsst anocher: Duc tis, with.
- Sut receivins chele asthe inNAFEL aWS OF Nature. THey practice chem as
- Rules ot convenience wichin cheir oun Communities: But it is impossi-
- ble to conceire, that he imbraces Tultice asa practical Principle, Who acts
- fairiy rith his Fellon. Frigh. may. men, and at che same time plunders or
- bills the next hones Man he meerswith. Jultice and Trutharechie com-
- non ries oF Socieer; and cheretore, even Outlans and Villains, ho
- breals with aIl thC W orId Besides, must keep Faith and Rules oF RguitY .
- onost chenselves, or elle ther cannor hold togettier. Buc will any onc
- PaY, Tharchole that live by Fraud and Rapine, have innare Principles of
- Truch and fustice, prhichcher allo and alsent to:
- 9. 3. Pertaps it illbe ursed, That thetacit assent of their Minds a-
- erees toWhat iheir Practice contradicts. Iansver, First, L have al ways
- ChouxhE
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 15. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0031?run=74