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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 160

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  1. Morat Relation.
  2. omnClub. He must Be oFa strange, and unusual Constitution, irho can
  3. content himselt, to live in constant Diserace and Ditrepute w ith his omn
  4. particular Socierr. Solitude mans Men hare soughe, and been reconciled
  5. to: Buc no Bodr, chat has the lealt Phoustus, or Sense ol a Nan about
  6. him, can live in Society, under the constane Distitre, and ill Opinion ot
  7. his Familiars, and chole he converses rith. This is a Burthen to0 heavy
  8. For humane Sufterance: And he must De made up ot irreconcileable
  9. Contradictions, wrho can takce Plealure in Companr, ard ret be insensiblo
  10. ot Contempt and Disgrace trom his Companions.
  11. 6. F3. These Three Fhen, First, THCLaW OFGOd. Secondly, thCL aW
  12. OF politick Socieries. Thirdly, the LaW oFFaction, or privare Cenlure,
  13. arethole, to which Nen varioussy compare their Actions: And ris by
  14. their Conformity to onc ofthese LaWrs, that ther tale their meatures
  15. when thes vould judse of their Moral Rectitude, and denominate ehcir
  16. ACtions gooc or bad.
  17. 5. F4. Whether che Rule, co wtrich, as to a Touch- Rone, We brino our
  18. voluntary actions, to examine themby, and eri their Coodnels, andaccor.
  19. dingly to name them; Which is, as it ivere, the Mark of the value re fer
  20. uxon them. Whether, ICay, re talre that Rule trom the Fastrion of the
  21. Connter, or the Will oF a Law-mater, the Mind is casily able to oblerve
  22. the Relation auy Action hath eo itiand to judse, whecher ehe ACtion aGrCCS,
  23. or dilaorees ith ehre Rule; and so hach a Notion oF Moral Coodness or
  24. Fvil, Wrhich is cither Contormitr, or not Contormity ot any Action to
  25. that Rule: And cherelore, is olten called Moral Rectitude. This Kule
  26. beins nothins bur a Collection of several simple Ideas, the Conformity
  27. chereto is bur (0 orderins the Action, char the simple Ideas, belongire t0
  28. it, may correlpond rothole, Wtieh the Lau requires. And ehus we sec
  29. ho Moral Beines and Notions, are founded on, and terminated in thele
  30. Simple Ldeas, We hare receired trom sensation or Reflection, belides Wwhict,
  31. re hare nothine at all in our Onderstandings, to emplor our ThouxHES
  32. about. FOr Fxample, let us consider the complex idea, re lignitiebr che
  33. Word Nurther; and wrhen ire have taken it alunder, and examined ail the
  34. Particulars, We Mall Aind them to amount to a Collection of Cimple Ideas,
  35. derired trom Reflection or Senlation, viz. First, From Rellection on the
  36. Operations oFouromn Minds, re have the Ldeas of Willine. Considerine,
  37. Purposins belore hand, Malice, or Wistrins III to another; and aII0 oF
  38. Lite, or Perception, and SclF.motion. Secondlr, FromSenlation, e have
  39. the Collection oFthe simple sensible Ldeas oF a Nan, and oF Pome ACtiOn,
  40. Wvhereby re put an end to chat Perception, and Morion in the MTan; 2II
  41. Which simple Ldeas, are comprehended in the Word Murcher. Fhis
  42. Collection oF simple Ideas, Beins found by me to aoree or disagree, Wirir
  43. the F.Scem oF the Counery Thare been bred in; and to be held by most
  44. Menthere, orthy Praise, orBlame, Pcall the Action vertuous or virious:
  45. IEThare the Will of a supreme, invisible LaW. matier for my Rule; chen,
  46. a5 Ilupposed the Action commanded, or Forbidden by Crod, Icall it Gi00d
  47. Or Evil, Sin or Dutr: and il L compare it to civil Larr, the Rule mare
  48. by che Legillatire ot the Counerr, ICaIL it lavtul, or unlantul, a Crime,
  49. Or no Crime. So that Whenceloever, e tatre the Rule oF Moral ACtiONS;
  50. Or By What Scandard soever, we trame in ourMinds the Ldeas OF Vertues or
  51. Vices, cher consist ontr, and are made up of Collections ot simple Ideas,
  52. erhich re originalls receired trom sense or Relection; and cheir Recti-
  53. tude or Obliquier, consilts in the Aereement or Dilagreement, Writh thole
  54. Patterns preleribed by lome L arV.
  55. 5. 15. Lo conceire a Rieht or Moral Actions, We must talie notice ot
  56. them,

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 160. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0176?run=74