| James Ormsbee Murray - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...Moral Philosophy, Book I., Chapter VIII. 2 "So the actions are to be estimated by their tendency ? Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility...rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it ; " and in reference to certain bad actions apparently accomplishing useful ends, "These actions after... | |
| Ezekiel Gilman Robinson - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 280
...2 of Part II. to Utilitarianism, but his criticism offers very little that is new. » Paley says, " It is the utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it." (Moral and Political Philosophy, Book 2, Chap. 6.) that may flow from it. If there be any fixed obligation... | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1896 - عدد الصفحات: 168
...promote or diminish the general happiness. " So then actions are to be estimated by their tendency. Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility...There are occasions in which the hand of the assassin wonld be very useful The present possessor of some great estate employs his inflnence and fortune,... | |
| Milton Valentine - 1897 - عدد الصفحات: 240
...tendency to secure everlasting happiness. He says : "Actions are to be estimated by their tendency. Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility...moral rule alone, which constitutes the obligation to it."2 "The will of God" is accepted as "the rule of virtue," seemingly not, however, as the direct... | |
| James Joseph Fox - 1899 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...that action to 254 L \ promote the general happiness." "Actions are to be estimated by their tendency. Whatever is expedient is right." "It is the utility...moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it."1 In the writings of Bentham, the principle that selfinterest is the guide of life assumed the... | |
| Frank Thilly - 1900 - عدد الصفحات: 374
...10. Paley. — According to William Paley, " actions are to be estimated according to their tendency. Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule which constitutes the obligation of it."* " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the... | |
| Frank Thilly - 1900 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...10. Paley. — According to William Paley, " actions are to be estimated according to their tendency. Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule which constitutes the obligation of it."4 " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the... | |
| Ernest Albee - 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 450
...Paley takes no pains to use language that might be expected to conciliate his opponents. He says: " Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility...rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it." 1 Paley shows his good judgment in following Gay and Tucker with regard to the necessity of acting... | |
| Marion Parris - 1909 - عدد الصفحات: 114
...rationalistic criterion of mere identity. Actions are to be universally estimated by their tendency. Whatever is expedient is right. "It is the utility of any moral rule which alone constitutes the obligation to it."20 Utility as a universal criterion for moral judgments... | |
| John Mackinnon Robertson - 1920 - عدد الصفحات: 494
...is the mere equivalent of the earlier : " So, then, actions are to be estimated by their tendency. Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility...rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it." ' Of course, Paley anticipates all the objections as to the pernicious results of leaving people to... | |
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