 | 1755 - Страниц: 768
...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. 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 - Страниц: 584
...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... | |
 | 1802 - Страниц: 558
...does not mean to admit, let him 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 - Страниц: 502
...private station. What then shall we say ? Must we admit these actions to be right, which would be to DO then actions are to be estimated by their tendency.*...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 - Страниц: 350
...have been since published. 19. Sermons and tracts. 1803. THE BEAUTIES 0» WILLIAM PALEY, DD Actions. ACTIONS are to be estimated by their tendency. Whatever...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 - Страниц: 498
...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 - Страниц: 412
...tendency of that " action to promote or diminish the gene" ral happiness." CHAPTER VI. UTILITY,. $o then actions are to be estimated by their tendency*....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 - Страниц: 560
...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 - Страниц: 582
...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,... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1819 - Страниц: 252
...promote or diminish the general happiness." UTILITY. — THE XECESSITV OT GENERAL RULES. OF RIGHT. SO then actions are to be estimated by their tendency....rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it. You cannot permit one action and forbid another, without shewing a difference between them. Consequently,... | |
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... the method of coming at the will of God, concerning any action, by the light of nature, is to inquire into the tendency of that action to promote or diminish the general happiness.' So, then, actions are to be estimated by their tendency. Whatever... 
