 | William Paley - 1831 - 692 oldal
...virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. CHAPTER VII. VIHTUE is " the doing good to manhind, cessary to show how well these things are wrapped up, so as to form a mass w According to which definition, " the good of mankind" is the subject; the " will of God," the rule... | |
 | William Paley - 1831 - 624 oldal
...over virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. „ CHAPTER VII. Virtue. ^ . •>• VIRTUE is "the doing good to mankind, in ' ^ ' obedience to the will of God, fmrf for the sake of > everlasting happiness.*) *• A According to whicli definition, "the good of... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1832 - 352 oldal
...the practical chapter on Happiness, and the philosophical portion of the chapter on Virtue. " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness."* It is not perhaps very important to observe, that these words, which he offers as 4<a definition,"... | |
 | William Paley - 1832 - 532 oldal
...vice has no advantage over virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. CHAPTER VII. VIRTUE is " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake ofever1 rifting happiness." According to which definition, " the good of mankind," is the subject;... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1832 - 320 oldal
...philosophical portion of the chapter on Virtue. "Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in tfbedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness."* It is not perhaps very important to observe, that these words, which he ofTers as "a definition," ought... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1833 - 378 oldal
...on the nature of virtue, may be said to contain the essence or kernel of his whole theory. " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. " According to which definition, the good of mankind is the subject ; the will of God the rule ; and... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey, Francis Jenks - 1833 - 422 oldal
...by a violent motive, resulting * Paley, in his Moral Philosophy, Book I. Chap. vii. says : "Virtue is ' the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.' According to this definition, 'the good of mankind ' is the subject ; the ' will of God,' the rule;... | |
 | 1833 - 636 oldal
...of virtue alone is an unanswerable illustration of the debasing vulgarity of his code — ' Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.' So that any one act of good to man in obedience to God, if it arise from any motive but a desire of... | |
 | Johann Gaspar Spurzheim - 1833 - 430 oldal
...Even Dr. Paley is an adherent of the selfish system under a modified form. He makes virtue consist in the doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God and for the sake of everlasting happiness. According to him the will of God is our rule, but private happiness our motive. On the other hand,... | |
 | Johann Gaspar Spurzheim - 1833 - 390 oldal
...Even Dr. Paley is an adherent of the selfish system under a modified form. He makes virtue consist in the doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God and for the sake of everlasting happiness. According to him the will of God is our rule, but private happiness our motive. On the other hand,... | |
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the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
