 | William Paley - 1806 - 502 pages
...be to DO then actions are to be estimated by their tendency.* Whatever is 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 to their l the .".gent is virtuous or vicious,... | |
 | William Paley, William Hamilton Reid - 1810 - 350 pages
...PALEY, DD Actions. ACTIONS are to be estimated by their tendency. Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which .constitutes the obligation of it. The general consequence of any action may be estimated, by asking what would be the consequence if... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - 540 pages
...,, Oo then actions are to be estimated by their tendency.* ) Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any / moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it. But to all this there seems a plain objection, viz. that many actions are useful, which no man in his... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 560 pages
...authority over every other principle of action. Whatever is expedient (says Dr. Palev) is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it J. . . . , But then, it must be expedient on the whole, at the long run, in all its effects collateral... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1819 - 252 pages
...RIGHT. SO then actions are to be estimated by their tendency. Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it. You cannot permit one action and forbid another, without shewing a difference between them. Consequently,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 348 pages
...authority over every other principle of action. " Whatever is expedient (says " Dr. Paley) is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which " constitutes the obligation of it.J • • • But then, it must be ex'• pedient on the whole, at the long run, in all its effects... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 476 pages
...Utility. So then actions are to be estimated by their tendency.* Whatever is expedient, is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone, which constitutes the obligation of it. But to all this there seems a plain objection, viz. that many actions are useful , which no man in... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1825 - 504 pages
...possible cases, and in effect to make it the basis of morals. "It is," said he, " the utility o(any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation...Dr. Paley answers, '* Every man for himself:" (vol. n . p. 142.) He foresees, indeed, ''the danger of error and abuse," maintains that every rule is liable... | |
 | William Paley - 1825 - 502 pages
...UTILITY. So then actions are to be estimated by their tendency*. Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone, which constitutes the obligation of it. But to all this there seems a plain objection, viz. that many actions are useful, which no man in his... | |
 | 1825 - 412 pages
...morals, " Whatever is expedient is right." " Actions are to be estimated by their tendency.'' " It is the utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it." Now these principles are supposed to be very injurious in their effects on the science of ethics, and... | |
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Whatever is expedient, is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone, which constitutes the obligation of it. 
