| William Paley - 1831 - 624 pages
...virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. „ CHAPTER VII. Virtue. ^ . •>• VIRTUE is H 2 2 X fmrf for the sake of > everlasting happiness.*) *• A According to whicli definition, "the good of... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - 1832 - 340 pages
...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...God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness."* It is not.perhaps very important to observe, that these words, which he offers TLS " a definition,"... | |
| William Paley - 1832 - 532 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
| 1833 - 424 pages
...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 will...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 pages
...virtue alone is an unanswerable 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 one act of good to man in obedience to God, if it arise from any motive but a desire of... | |
| Robert Blakey - 1833 - 378 pages
...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 will...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... | |
| Johann Gaspar Spurzheim - 1833 - 390 pages
...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 - 430 pages
...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,... | |
| John Abercrombie - 1833 - 264 pages
...acknowledged to be liable to considerable objections. He commences with the proposition that virtue is doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. The good of mankind, therefore, is the subject — the will of God, the rule — and everlasting happiness,... | |
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