 | 1837 - 418 pàgines
...textbook in our highest seminaries of learning, has given us this definition of virtue ; — " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." For the sake of evei'lasting happiness ! It is then, for the sake of happiness, — for its tendency... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 364 pàgines
...future is all hope : to the former, all despair. Paley defines very erroneously, when he calls virtue the doing good to mankind, ' in obedience to the will...' God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.' There is, on the contrary, as it were, ' A smooth, short space of yellow sand, Between it and the greener... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1838 - 746 pàgines
...criterion of virtue, while he rejects that writer's theory of obligation. Paley's definition of virtue is 'the doing 'good to mankind, in obedience to the...God, and for the ' sake of everlasting happiness. According to which definition,' adds Paley, ' the good of mankind is the subject, the will of God '... | |
 | William Paley - 1838 - 976 pàgines
...prudent pursuit of pleasure, and a wise regard to selfinterest. Paley's definition is, that it is ' doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." This final definition uems to comprehend all the preceding; for if the advocates of the other replications... | |
 | William Paley - 1838 - 586 pàgines
...principle of natural justice and are employed not so much to teach new rules of morality as to VIRTUE. " The doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God and for the end of everlasting happiness."* * anciently divided into benevolence, prudence, fortitude, and temperance,... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1839 - 1018 pàgines
...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 to the...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 pàgines
...Human Understanding," hook iv. chap. 3. illustration of the debasing vulgarity of his code. " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...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... | |
 | George Combe - 1840 - 484 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Robert Mudie - 1840 - 352 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - 1840 - 544 pàgines
...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,... | |
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the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
