Answers questions on Thoreau's essay Civil Disobedience, on conscience and resisting unjust government, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the passage.
“…t virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?—in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must the citi…”
Answers questions on Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan: the state of nature, the social contract and sovereign power, quoting the 1651 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
Answers questions on John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism: the greatest happiness principle, higher and lower pleasures and justice, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“…essory circumstances, is the essence of Conscience; though in that complex phenomenon as it actually exists, the simple fact is in general all encrusted over wi…”
Answers questions on Samuel Smiles's Self-Help: perseverance, energy, character and the lives of self-made people, quoting the 1859 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“…propriate illustration of principle, or conscience, dominating in the character, and exercising a noble protectorate over it; not merely a passive influence, bu…”
Answers questions on Thomas Paine's Common Sense, the 1776 pamphlet arguing for American independence, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the section.
Answers questions on Atkinson's The Psychology of Salesmanship: the stages of a sale, approaching a prospect, attention, interest and objections, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“*The Religio-Moral Faculties.* This group of faculties includes *Conscientiousness*, or Moral Principle; *Hope*, or Optimism; *Spirituality*, or other-worldline…”
Answers questions on Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil: the prejudices of philosophers, master and slave morality and the free spirit, quoting Helen Zimmern's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“refined, the most upright, and also the most wicked consciences of today, as the living touchstones of the soul. 33. It cannot be helped: the sentiment of surre…”
Answers questions on Thoreau's Walden, two years of simple living by Walden Pond, quoting the 1854 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“…t virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?—in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must the citi…”
Answers questions on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: virtue, happiness, friendship and the golden mean, quoting D. P. Chase's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.
“There are in the Soul three functions on which depend moral action and truth; Sense, Intellect, Appetition, whether vague Desire or definite Will. Now of these …”
Answers questions on John Stuart Mill's On Liberty: the harm principle, freedom of thought and the limits of authority, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“But though this proposition is not likely to be contested in general terms, the practical question, where to place the limit—how to make the fitting adjustment …”