 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1848 - Liczba stron: 144
...beginning of the succeeding one, in so far that the word happiness is prominent in both places. " Virtue is the doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." But it is evident that there is scarcely the vestige of a connection... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1848 - Liczba stron: 630
...practical chapter on Happiness, and the philosophical portion of the chapter on Virtue. " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for ihe sake of everlasting happiness."* It is not perhaps very important to observe, that these words,... | |
 | John Harris - 1849 - Liczba stron: 526
...to do. 22. According to Paley in his theory of expediency, or of general consequences, " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting * Thus, one of the sections in the third book of his " Treatise of Human Nature,'"... | |
 | William Paley - 1850 - Liczba stron: 628
...advantage over virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. CHAPTER VII. Virtue. VlRTBE is "the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.'' According to which definition, "the good of mankind" is the subject;... | |
 | 1850 - Liczba stron: 590
...each other. He educes the moral faculty from gratitude, pity, shame, and resentment. 7. " Virtue is the doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlastinghappiness," is Paley's definition of virtue. According to it, every act of virtue... | |
 | Adam Sedgwick - 1850 - Liczba stron: 786
...their ordinary effects, both physical and moral, on the character and condition of man. 5. Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God and for the sake of everlasting happiness. This is the definition adopted by Paley ; and it is, I think, open to... | |
 | 1994 - Liczba stron: 412
...Scripture (that is, of God) which alone is obviously sufficient. Hence the famous definition, " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." and, in particular, in the human body. In these works we see how complete... | |
 | Jerome B. Schneewind - 1977 - Liczba stron: 490
...questionable feeling. (I, v.) Paley's definition of virtue gives the foundations of his theory. Virtue is 'the doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness'. (I, vi.) The will of God, Paley explains, is what makes right acts... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey - 1914 - Liczba stron: 616
...right,2 as a thing independent of utility, he may, like Rousseau, popularise ideas which 1 " Virtue is, * the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will " of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.' *' According to which definition, ' the good of mankind ' is the "... | |
 | David Daiches Raphael - 1991 - Liczba stron: 448
...Moral and Political Philosophy BOOK I — PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS CHAP. VII — VIRTUE Virtue is 'the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, 845 and for the sake of everlasting happiness.' According to which definition, 'the good of mankind'... | |
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the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
