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" Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the Will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. "
The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy - Página 48
por William Paley - 1806 - 492 páginas
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Sidgwick's Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy

Jerome B. Schneewind - 1977 - 490 páginas
...definition of virtue gives the foundations of his theory. Virtue is 'the doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness'. (I, vi.) The will of God, Paley explains, is what makes right acts right ; doing good to mankind is...
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Lectures on the Relation Between Law & Public Opinion in England: During the ...

Albert Venn Dicey - 1914 - 616 páginas
...may, like Rousseau, popularise ideas which 1 " Virtue is, * the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will " of God, and for the sake of everlasting...everlasting happiness ' " the motive of human virtue." — Paley, Moral Philosoph9, i. bk. i. ch. vii. p. 4L 2 On the whole a priori systems of ethies will...
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British Moralists, 1650-1800: Hume

David Daiches Raphael - 1991 - 448 páginas
...materially good actions, dist. formally good, 750. [Pafey] virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness, 845. — of mankind, is the subject of virtue, 845. [R«'d] what is good for us upon the whole is an...
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The Descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle: Who Came from Old to New ...

George Frederick Tuttle - 1883 - 412 páginas
...as Hume, had been a careful reader of Kdwards, that it is "the doing good to man kind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Kdwards held it to be in some sense, the same as beauty; in other words, to be every voluntary act,...
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Method in Ethical Theory

Abraham Edel - 1993 - 388 páginas
...ed.; Boston, 1821), Bk.ILCh.5. Cf. Bk. I,Ch. 7: "Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." (3) Rules about the way in which constituents may be combined in ethical statements appear to some...
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Defining Science: William Whewell, Natural Knowledge and Public Debate in ...

Richard Yeo - 2003 - 304 páginas
...combined utilitarian ethics and Christianity. Virtue, he said, is 'the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness'. Actions were then estimated, in moral terms, by their tendency to produce this result (1809, 12-16,...
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Political and Social Essays

Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord - 1995 - 544 páginas
...of Moral and Political Philosophy, p. 27], viz, "Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." [LSM] Cf. Hugh Swinton Legare, "Jeremy Bentham and the Utilitarians," in The Writings of Hugh Swinton...
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The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy

Jerome B. Schneewind - 1998 - 652 páginas
...points becomes clear from Paley's definition of "virtue" as "the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." When we act virtuously we take human happiness as our goal, the will of God as the basis for our rule,...
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The Backward Art of Spending Money

Wesley Clair Mitchell - 514 páginas
...addressing."7 This 4 Compare Paley's famous definition of virtue: "the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, Book I, Chap. VII (21 st. ed.,London, 1818, vol. I, p....
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The Simple Genetic Algorithm: Foundations and Theory

Michael D. Vose - 1999 - 650 páginas
...Tractarians might denounce as immoral Paley's definition of virtue, 'the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness'; but the Church was still regarded, particularly in the countryside, as the arm of the secular law,...
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