| 1755 - Liczba stron: 768
...not mean to admit, let him be heard in his own Words. Vol. i. p. 70. " Actions are to be eftimated by their tendency. Whatever is expedient is right....throughout his work, determined any particular mode of conduct to be right or wrong, by endeavouring to trace hs general effect upon mankind at large. If... | |
| William Paley - 1788 - Liczba stron: 584
...or diannilh the general happinefs." CHAP. CHAP. VI. UTILITY. SO then actions arc to be eft i mated by their' tendency. * Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which conItitutcs the obligation of it. But to all this there Items a plain objection, viz. that many actions... | |
| William Paley, William Hamilton Reid - 1810 - Liczba stron: 350
...19. Sermons and tracts. 1803. THE BEAUTIES 0» WILLIAM PALEY, DD Actions. ACTIONS are to be estimated by their tendency. Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which .constitutes the obligation of it. The general consequence of any action may be estimated, by asking... | |
| William Paley - 1810 - Liczba stron: 498
...promote or frustrate that effect.|| Actions, in the abstract, then, are right or wrong according to their tendency. Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone that constitutes the obligation of * See Law's Translation of King on the Origin of Evil, 5th ed. prefatory... | |
| William Paley - 1811 - Liczba stron: 540
...promote or diminish the general happiness." CHAPTER VI. UTILITY. ,, Oo then actions are to be estimated by their tendency.* ) Whatever is expedient is right....It is the utility of any / moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it. But to all this there seems a plain objection, viz. that many actions... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1814 - Liczba stron: 560
...its paramount authority over every other principle of action. Whatever is expedient (says Dr. Palev) is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it J. . . . , But then, it must be expedient on the whole, at the long... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1819 - Liczba stron: 252
...happiness." UTILITY. — THE XECESSITV OT GENERAL RULES. OF RIGHT. SO then actions are to be estimated by their tendency. Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it. You cannot permit one action and forbid another, without shewing... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1821 - Liczba stron: 348
...paramount authority over every other principle of action. " Whatever is expedient (says " Dr. Paley) is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which " constitutes the obligation of it.J • • • But then, it must be ex'• pedient on the whole,... | |
| William Paley - 1823 - Liczba stron: 476
...promote or diminish the general happiness.'' CHAP. VI. Utility. So then actions are to be estimated by their tendency.* Whatever is expedient, is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone, which constitutes the obligation of it. But to all this there seems a plain objection, viz. that many actions... | |
| William Paley - 1825 - Liczba stron: 502
...shows the abundance of such examples about us. CHAP. VI. UTILITY. So then actions are to be estimated by their tendency*. Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone, which constitutes the obligation of it. But to all this there seems a plain objection, viz. that many actions... | |
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