The Logic of the Heart by James R. Peters

Author:James R. Peters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REL051000, REL067000
ISBN: 9781441205711
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2013-10-03T00:00:00+00:00

Some think it is nature that makes people good; some think it is habit; some that it is teaching.

The [contribution] of nature clearly is not up to us, but results from some divine cause in those who have it, who are the truly fortunate ones.

Arguments and teachings surely do not influence everyone, but the soul of the student needs to have been prepared by habits for enjoying and hating finely, like ground that is to nourish seed. For someone whose life follows his feelings would not even listen to an argument turning him away, or comprehend it [if he did listen]; and in that state how could he be persuaded to change? And in general feelings seem to yield to force, not to argument.

Hence we must already in some way have a character suitable for virtue, fond of what is fine and objecting to what is shameful.[14]

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