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cience of the principles on which the moral life ought to be founded
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true knowledge is provided by logic; physics embraces the doctrines as to the nature and organization of the universe; ethics draws from them its conclusions for practical life. R
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all knowledge originates in the real impressions of things on the sense
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all true being is corporeal.
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Within the corporeal they recognized two principles, matter and force -- that is, the material, and the Deity (logos, order, fate) permeating and informing it. Ultimately, however, the two are identical
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all is bound together by an unalterable chain of causation
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law of nature, of the human will with the divine will, or life according to nature, is virtue, the chief good and highest end in life
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completely sufficient for happiness, and incapable of any differences of degree. All good actions are absolutely equal in merit, and so are all bad actions. All that lies between virtue and vice is neither good nor bad; at most, it is distinguished as preferable, undesirable, or absolutely indifferent.
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Virtue is fully possessed only by the wise perso
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