...any person be called honest who is not virtuous." "What is virtue?" asked Ann. "Virtue consists in doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and was divided by moralists into benevolence, prudence, temperance, and fortitude. These are called the...

...state my objections to it as distinctly as I may be able. " Virtue," says this celebrated writer, " is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." "According to this definition," he adds, " the good of mankind is the subject, the will of God the...

...Human Understanding," hook iv. chap. 3. illustration of the debasing vulgarity of his code. " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." So that any act of good to man in obedience to God, if it arise from any motive but a desire of the...

...dictates of a moral sense. Dr. Paley does not admit such a faculty, but declares virtue to consist " in doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Dr. Adam Smith endeavors to show that sympathy is the source of moral approbation. Dr. Reid, Mr. Stewart,...

...the foundations of all his theories. Virtue, according to Paley, consists in III. AA 266 ERROR OF " doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and FOR THE SAKE OF EVERLASTING HAPPINESS." This passage is so very important, — as embodying the essence of the theory in very few words, that...

...different kind, and cannot be rendered thus positive. Dr. Paley asserts, that " virtue is the doing good, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Now, if he could have proved this, by a train of reasoning, founded upon a self-evident proposition,...

...dictates of a moral sense. Dr. Paley does not admit such a faculty, but declares virtue to consist 1 in doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.' Dr. Adam Smith endeavours to show that sympathy is the source of moral approbation. Dr. Reid, Mr. Stewart,...

...dictates of a moral sense. Dr. Paley does not admit such a faculty, but declares virtue to consist ' in doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.' Dr. Adam Smith endeavours to show that sympathy is the source of moral approbation. Dr. Reid, Mr. Stewart,...

...vg fides, spes, charitas, veritate, (1) S. Thorn. 1. 2. qu. Iv. art. iv. Paley dicit : " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Moral Philosophy, 1. i. ch. vu. Omni ex parte peccat hœc definitio. (2) Ibidem. Ad sexlurn. VOL. II.—...

...relating to it has been pretty well agreed upon, and it is generally understood to include thus much : The doing good to mankind in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. Obedience to God is the principle, the good of mankind the matter, our own happiness the end, of all...