 | 1755 - 768 páginas
...his own Words. Vol. i. p. 70. " Actions are to be eftimated by their tendency. Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule, alone, which conftitutes the obligation of it ;" and it is undeniable, that the author has generally throughout... | |
 | William Paley - 1788 - 584 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1802 - 558 páginas
...his own words. Vol. ip 70. ' Actions are to be eiîimated by their tendency. Whatever is expedient is .right. It is the utility of any moral rule, alone, which conftitutes the obligation of it ;' and it is undeniable, that the author has generally throughout... | |
 | William Paley - 1806 - 502 páginas
...right, which would be to DO 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. * Actions in the abstract are right or wrong, according to their l the .".gent is virtuous or vicious,... | |
 | William Paley, William Hamilton Reid - 1810 - 350 páginas
...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 what would be the consequence... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - 540 páginas
...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 are useful, which no man... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 560 páginas
...since revived by Mr. Godwin, and by the excellent Dr. Paley. Widely as these two writers differ in the source whence they derive their rule of conduct, and...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.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 582 páginas
...revived by Mr Godwin, and by the late excellent Dr Paley. Widely as these two writers differ in the source whence they derive their rule of conduct, and...enforce its observance, they are perfectly agreed about » Theory of Moral Sentiments, Vol. I. p. 216, et seq. 6th Edit. •J- " Ipsa utilitas, justi prope... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1819 - 252 páginas
...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 a difference between them. Consequently,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 706 páginas
...revived by Mr. Godwin, and by the late excellent Dr. Paley. Widely as these two writers differ in the source whence they derive their rule of conduct, and...moral rule alone which " constitutes the obligation of it.J • • • But then, it must be ex" pedient on the whole, at the long run, in all its effects... | |
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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. 
