| 1755 - 768 pages
...heard in 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 pages
...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... | |
| 1802 - 558 pages
...be heard in 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 pages
...to be 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 pages
...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 what would be the consequence if... | |
| William Paley - 1810 - 498 pages
...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 pages
...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...occasions, in which the hand of the assassin would be very useful. The present possessor of some great estate employs his influence and fortune • .\ctions... | |
| William Paley - 1811 - 412 pages
...happiness." CHAPTER VI. UTILITY,. $o then actions are to be estimated by their tendency*. Whatever is expedient, is right. It is the utility of any moral...obligation of it. But to all this there seems a plain objec-r tion, viz. that many actions are useful, which no man in his senses will allow to be right.... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 560 pages
...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 run, in all its effects collateral... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 582 pages
...every other principle of action. " Whatever is expedient (says Dr Paley) is right. It is the uti** lity of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation " of it*. . . . But then, it must be expedient on the whole, " at the long run, in all its effects collateral and remote,... | |
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