 | William Paley, Edmund Paley - 1825 - 578 pages
...inconvenience. If the question be, Whether a man remarkable for this sort of bounty is to be esteemed virtuous 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... | |
 | William Paley - 1825 - 490 pages
...from charity or from ostentation ' It ii evident that our concern is with actions in the abstract. 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... | |
 | 1826 - 606 pages
...the following are at the foundation of his system of morals. Whatever is expedient, is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it. Actions are to be estimated by their tendency. To be obliged to do an action, according to his view,... | |
 | 1826 - 608 pages
...the following are at the foundation of his system of morals. Whatever is expedient, is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it. Actions are to be estimated by their tendency. To be obliged to do an action, according to his view,... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 692 pages
...the following are at the foundation of his system of morals. Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it. Actions are to be estimated by their tendency. To be obliged to do an action, according to his view,... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 620 pages
...the following are at the foundation of his system of morals. Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it. Actions are to be estimated by their tendency. To be obliged to do an action, according to his view,... | |
 | 1827 - 566 pages
...been, perhaps, the most distinguished patrons. " Whatever is expedient, says Dr. Paley, is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it. — But then, it must be expedient on the whole., at the long •mi, in all its effects collateral... | |
 | William Paley - 1828 - 610 pages
...'•, 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 442 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. f . . . . But then, it must be expedient on the whole, at the long run, in all its effects collateral... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 418 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. f . . . . But then, it must be expedient on the whole, at the long run, in all its effects collateral... | |
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Whatever is expedient, is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone, which constitutes the obligation of it. 
