 | Robert Aspland - 1839 - 1018 sider
...air, down comes Paley at once with the force of Corporal Trim's hat " plump upon the ground :" — " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience...of God and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Let this definition be a proposition or bone of contention, if you will ; it is a bone on which there... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1840 - 616 sider
...on the Human Understanding," hook iv. chap. 3. illustration of the debasing vulgarity of his code. " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience...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... | |
 | Robert Mudie - 1840 - 352 sider
...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... | |
 | George Combe - 1840 - 484 sider
...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,... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - 1840 - 544 sider
...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,... | |
 | 1841 - 632 sider
...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,... | |
 | 1841 - 608 sider
...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,... | |
 | Louis Bautain - 1841 - 290 sider
...consequences of actions is the sole criterion of their moral quality. Virtue is defined by him to be " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, for the sake of everlasting happiness." Mackintosh makes the observation that this is not so much a... | |
 | Francis Patrick Kenrick - 1842 - 438 sider
...innititur : 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...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.—... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 620 sider
...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... | |
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the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
