By Leo Sherley-Price, Thomas Kempis
One of many best-loved books of Christianity after the Bible, The Imitation of Christ is a passionate party of God and His love, mercy and holiness, which has encouraged conversion and motivated spiritual devotion for over years. With nice own conviction, Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471) demonstrates the individual's reliance on God and at the phrases of Christ, and the futility of lifestyles with no religion. Thomas spent a few seventy years of his lifestyles within the reclusive atmosphere of monasteries, but during this marvelous paintings he demonstrates an encompassing knowing of human nature and his writing speaks to readers of all ages and each kingdom.
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It is the same way with moral feeling, which does not cause any moral law, for this arises wholly from reason; rather, it is caused or effected by moral laws, hence by reason, because the active yet free will needs determinate grounds. P Sittlichkeit q for sich , Moralitat , Princip 12 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ORIENT ONESELF IN THINKING? itself alone' it constitutes the whole determining ground of our judgment about the existence of the highest being, and its use as a means of orientation in attempts to speculate on this same subject is only contingent, so Mendelssohn erred here in that he nevertheless trusted speculation to the extent of letting it alone settle everything on the path of demonstration.
Failing here, you will become unworthy of this freedom, and you will surely forfeit it too; and besides that you will bring the same misfortune down on the heads of other, innocent parties who would otherwise have been well disposed and would have used their freedom lawfully and hence in a way which is conducive d to what is best for the world! * Thinkingfor oneself means seeking the supreme touchstone of truth in oneself (Le. in one's own reason); and the maxim of always thinking for oneself is enlightenment.
E. of human beings (higher spiritual beings as well, good or evil, as the case may be). The author of a theodicy agrees, therefore, that this juridical process be instituted before the tribunal of reason; he further consents to represent the accused side as advocate through the formal refutation of all the plaintiff's complaints; he is not therefore allowed to dismiss the latter in the course of the process of law through a decree of incompetency of the tribunal of human reason (exceptio fln),!