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Ideas of Ralph Cudworth, by Text
[English, 1617 - 1688, Taught at Cambridge University.]
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1688
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On Eternal and Immutable Morality
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Bk IV Ch 6.4
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p.118
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If the soul were a tabula rasa, with no innate ideas, there could be no moral goodness or justice
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Ch.I.I.5
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p.106
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If the will and pleasure of God controls justice, then anything wicked or unjust would become good if God commanded it
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Ch.II.3
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p.109
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The requirement that God must be obeyed must precede any authority of God's commands
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Ch.II.3
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p.109
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Obligation to obey all positive laws is older than all laws
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Ch.II.4
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p.109
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Keeping promises and contracts is an obligation of natural justice
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Ch.II.I
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p.107
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An omnipotent will cannot make two things equal or alike if they aren't
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Ch.II.VI.1
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p.115
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Senses cannot judge one another, so what judges senses cannot be a sense, but must be superior
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Ch.III.III.2
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p.116
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6229
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Sense is fixed in the material form, and so can't grasp abstract universals
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1688
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Treatise of Freewill
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§X
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p.132
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There is a self-determing power in each person, which makes them what they are
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