The Manuscripts of Adam Ferguson by Dix Robin C.;Dix Robin C;Heath Eugene;Merolle Vincenzo;

Author:Dix, Robin C.;Dix, Robin C;Heath, Eugene;Merolle, Vincenzo;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group

Logic and Ethic.

Logic is the History & Conduct of the Power Cognitive.

Ethic is the History & Conduct of the Power Selective.

The first recounts the sources of Knowledge The Evidence of Truth of Generalisation and Arrangement of Physical Law comprehension & Order, And Concludes with the Canons of Investigation and Argument or Syllogism.

It is of much Consequence in the pursuits of Science to Anticipate our End in just definitions. If I were beginning my Studies I would take [the] above definitions of Logic & think I could not go wrong or mistake my Way.

Dr Reid4 should help me in one part. Lord Bacon5 And the Naturalists in a Second and Aristotle6 in the last.

This Branch of Science however important as it is but the Avenue to a Mansion in /[4] which The Intelligent Being is to fix his Habitation and his Throne: To Command his Perfections & his Enjoyment. To correct his Defects and avoid his Sufferings.

Such is the End of the Power Selective whose the History and Conduct is to man in a Special degree the Knowledge of himself & his Way to Improvement felicity & Safety.

Armed with this Definition I think that no source of Enjoyment or Suffering should Escape my Notice. Perfection & defects should be justly Estimated. Enjoyments that mislead should be detected & Sufferings that promote to conduct to Superior Enjoyment should be Acknowledged & chearfully endured. And that Institution & manners in human Life could be justly Estimated and turned to Advantage. I should then not only know but be master of myself & Arbiter of all my Fortunes. I am now four & five alass how much time I have lost.7

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