By James McCosh
This 1850 variation of the strategy of The Divine executive is the Scottish thinker and clergyman James McCosh's influential account of ways God's windfall, which in his opinion is an unquestionable truth, governs the realm in either a actual (external) and in an ethical (internal) feel. The latter is especially hooked up to the various layers that make up man's sense of right and wrong. This moment version, which is composed of 4 components ('books') and an appendix, differs from the unique model as McCosh can pay way more cognizance to first ideas than to basic ones. He seeks to pinpoint God's personality and probes the depths of man's moral sense (First e-book) and within the following he delves into the actual features of God's executive, paying specific cognizance to Comte's Positivism. McCosh devotes half 3 to a close research of the human brain and ethical nature and at last within the fourth half he reconciles God and guy.
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Instead of the " greatest happiness" principle, he might have seen what we may call the " greatest morality" principle; and the idea, if prosecuted, would have conducted him to a firm resting-place, on which he might have contemplated the full character of God, and His dealings towards a world -which would have been seen by him as fallen. But when the grand reconciling truth was just dawning upon his mind, he turns to another truth which has but sufficient importance to distract his attention. " Does he mean to say that the grand aim of God in inflicting grief was to cause pity on the part of many ?
The religious history of mankind may be summed up in this—that it is a continually repeated attempt to adapt the character of God to those who feel that they cannot do without him. It is worthy of being inquired, whether this strong tendency of our nature may not be at work in this present age, as it has been operating in all past ages ; and whether our literary and scientific men are not holding forth to themselves and to the popular view the Divine Being shorn of some of the brightest of his perfections, because too dazzling to their eyes: whether the God adored by some be not as different from the truly existing God, as the gods of the heathens were: be not, in short, the creature of men's imagination, just as truly as the images worshipped in idolatrous nations are the workmanship of men's hands ?
This second inquiry must bring under our special notice and consideration the character of man, not it is true, metaphysically or analytically, or in all its aspects, but in its bearings towards God. The consideration of the nature of man, and more particularly of his moral qualities, will again conduct us * Religio Medici, sect. xii. 20 INTRODUCTION. upward to the contemplation of the rectitude or the moral excellence of God. It is by placing the two together, the character of God and the character of man as it were in juxtaposition, the one over against the other, that we can best understand both.