 | David Nasmith - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 552
...expedient, is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone, which constitutes the obligation of it. Actions in the abstract are right or wrong, according...vicious according to his design. Thus, if the question be, whether relieving common beggars be right or wrong ? We enquire into the tendency of such a conduct... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it." The second is as follows : — " Actions, in the abstract, are right or wrong according to their tendency ; tho agency is virtuous or vicious according to his design.' — " Paley's Moral philosophy," book... | |
 | David Daiches Raphael - 1991 - عدد الصفحات: 448
...750-1.— two senses of, (i) volitions, including intentions, (2) external effect produced, 756. [Pa/ey] actions in the abstract are right or wrong according to their tendency, dist. virtue or vice of the agent, which depends on his design, 85411. [Reid] every deliberate human... | |
 | J. B. Schneewind - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 696
...reason of the gen* Actions in the abstract arc right or wrong, according to their tendency; the ugent is virtuous or vicious, according to his design. Thus, if the question be. Whether relieving common beggars be right or wrong? we inquire into the tendency of such a conduct... | |
 | American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - 1899 - عدد الصفحات: 340
...tendency of that action to promote or to diminish the general happiness. Actions, in the abstract, arc right or wrong according to their tendency, the agent is virtuous or vicious according to his design. It is the utility alone of any moral rule that constitutes the obligation of it. Whatever is expedient... | |
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But to all this, there seems a plain objection, viz. that many ac"Actions in the abstract are right or wrong, according to their tendency; the agent is virtuous or vicious, according to his design. Thus, if the question be, Whether relieving common beggars... 
