 | 1755 - 768 страница
...not mean to admit, let him be heard in his own Words. Vol. i. p. 70. " Actions are to be eftimated by their tendency. Whatever is expedient is right....throughout his work, determined any particular mode of conduct to be right or wrong, by endeavouring to trace hs general effect upon mankind at large. If... | |
 | William Paley - 1788 - 584 страница
...or diannilh the general happinefs." CHAP. 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... | |
 | William Paley, William Hamilton Reid - 1810 - 350 страница
...19. Sermons and tracts. 1803. THE BEAUTIES 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... | |
 | William Paley - 1810 - 498 страница
...promote or frustrate that effect.|| Actions, in the abstract, then, are right or wrong according to their tendency. Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone that constitutes the obligation of * See Law's Translation of King on the Origin of Evil, 5th ed. prefatory... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - 540 страница
...promote or diminish the general happiness." 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 560 страница
...its paramount authority over every other 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. . . . , But then, it must be expedient on the whole, at the long... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1819 - 252 страница
...happiness." UTILITY. — THE XECESSITV OT 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 348 страница
...paramount authority over every other principle of action. " Whatever is expedient (says " Dr. Paley) is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which " constitutes the obligation of it.J • • • But then, it must be ex'• pedient on the whole,... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 476 страница
...promote or diminish the general happiness.'' CHAP. VI. Utility. 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. But to all this there seems a plain objection, viz. that many actions... | |
 | William Paley - 1825 - 502 страница
...shows the abundance of such examples about us. CHAP. VI. UTILITY. 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. But to all this there seems a plain objection, viz. that many actions... | |
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Whatever is expedient, is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone, which constitutes the obligation of it. 
