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Joseph Butler | respect

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.

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Joseph Butler | respect

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.

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Nature

Joseph Butler | nature

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

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happiness

Joseph Butler | happiness

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.

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happiness

Joseph Butler | happiness

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

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happiness

Joseph Butler | happiness

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.

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happiness

Joseph Butler | happiness

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

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happiness

Joseph Butler | happiness

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

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Food

Joseph Butler | food

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

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cool

Joseph Butler | cool

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.

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