 | Robert Blakey - 1836 - 388 páginas
...book, on the nature of virtue, may be said to contain the essence or kernel of his whole theory. " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness, " According to which definition, the good of mankind is the subject ; the will of God the rule ; and... | |
 | 1836 - 586 páginas
...act itself. In this view of the case, Paley's definition is doubly in error. " Virtue," says he, " is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." On this principle, the benevolent designs of Howard, would be declared devoid of the quality of virtue,... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - 520 páginas
...advocate, Dr. Paley, and we find it stated by him in few and explicit words. " Virtue," says Paley, " is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...will of God and FOR THE SAKE of everlasting happiness !" The motive then from which all duty or virtue must proceed is the hope of everlasting happiness.... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 286 páginas
...advocate, Dr Paley, and we find it stated by him in few and explicit words. " Virtue,'' says Paley, "is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...will of God and for the sake of everlasting happiness I" The motive then from which all duty or virtue must proceed is the hope of everlasting happiness.... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - 522 páginas
...advocate, Dr. Paley, and we find it stated by him in few and explicit words. •« Virtue," says Paley, " is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...will of God and FOR THE SAKE of everlasting happiness !" The motive then from which all duty or virtue must proceed is the hope of everlasting happiness.... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 364 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1837 - 258 páginas
...acknowledged to be liable to considerable objections. He commences with the proposition that virtue is doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. The good of mankind, therefore, is the subject—the will of God, the rule —and everlasting happiness,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1838 - 746 páginas
...the 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...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 páginas
...vice has no advantage over virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. CHAPTER VII. VIRTUE. VIRTUE is " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of eeerlattinff happiness *." According to which definition, " the good of mankind" is the subject; the... | |
 | George Combe - 1838 - 736 páginas
...virtue, but is also an adherent of the selfish system, under a modified form. He makes virtue consist in "the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness."f According to this doctrine, "the will of God is our rule, but private happiness our motive,"... | |
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debasing vulgarity of his code —' Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
