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...[M]oral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, ...accomplishes... little... [because] the teachers themselves hav...more

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Since in early youth it cannot be known what ends are likely to occur to us in the course of life, parents seek to have their children taught a great ...more

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Would it not therefore be wiser in moral concerns to acquiesce in the judgement of common reason, or at most only to call in philosophy for the purpos...more

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If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes my diet, and so on... then I have no need to exert...more