History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2)Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
Philosophy
History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2)
Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
Ethics; Europe -- Moral conditions
Locke, John, his view of moral good and moral evil, i. 8, _note_.
His theological utilitarianism, 16, _note_.
His view of the sanctions of morality, 19.
His invention of the phrase “association of ideas,” 23.
His definition of conscience, 29, _note_.
Cousin’s objections against him, 75, _note_.
His refutation of the doctrine of a natural moral sense, 123, 124.
Rise of the sensual school out of his philosophy, 123, _note_.
Famous formulary of his school, 124
Lombard, Peter, character of his “Sentences,” ii. 226.
His visions of heaven and hell, 228
Longinus, his suicide, i. 219
Love terms Greek, in vogue with the Romans, i. 231, _note_
Lucan, failure of his courage under torture, i. 194.
His sycophancy, 194.
His cosmopolitanism, 240
Lucius, the bishop, martyrdom of, i. 454
Lucretius, his scepticism, i. 162.
His disbelief in the immortality of the soul, i. 182, _note_.
His praise of Epicurus, 197.
His suicide, 215.
On a bereaved cow, ii. 165
Lunatic asylums, the first, ii. 89
Luther’s wife, her remark on the sensuous creed she had left, i. 52
Lyons, persecution of the Christians at, i. 441
Macarius, St., miracle attributed to, ii. 40, _note_.
His penances, 108, 109.
Legend of his visit to an enchanted garden, 158.
Other legends of him, 158, 159, 170, 220
Macedonia, effect of the conquest of, on the decadence of Rome, i. 169
Mackintosh, Sir James, theory of morals advocated by, i. 4.
Fascination of Hartley’s doctrine of association over his mind, 29
Macrianus, persuades the Emperor Valerian to persecute the Christians, i.
455
Macrina Cælia, her benevolence to children, ii. 77
Magdalen asylums, adversaries of, ii. 98, and _note_
Mallonia, virtue of, ii. 309
Malthus, on charity, ii. 92, _note_
Mandeville, his “Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue.” His thesis that
“private vices are public benefits,” i. 7.
His opposition to charity schools, ii. 98
Manicheans, their tenets, ii. 102.
Their prohibition of animal food, 167
Manilius, his conception of the Deity, i. 163
Manufactures, influence upon morals, i. 139
Marcellinus, Tullius, his self-destruction, i. 222
Marcia, mistress of Commodus, her influence in behalf of toleration to the
Christians, i. 443
Marcian, St., legend of the visit of St. Avitus to him, ii. 159
Marcus, St., story of, and his mother, ii. 128
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