They have repeatedly given up their time to save lives and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their benevolence. |
The inconsistency and disproportionateness which has been occasioned in our sentiments of benevolence, offers a curious moral phenomenon. |
In such a case, the person has failed to show benevolence for morally discreditable reasons, and so has behaved badly. |
The disaster left the world in great grief, but it has responded with unprecedented benevolence. |
After all, how can we expect a person who is cruel to small creatures to show kindness and benevolence to his countrymen? |
He believes that the motive of benevolence, so dear to empiricist morality, is a species of mere inclination, and therefore morally neutral. |