...should take in all these particulars, and can be only this: the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.' In the second essay he explained that the principle of association, whereby the moral sense could be...

...application of the rule of general consequences : many others have occurred, and will occur. Paley says, " The good of mankind is the subject, the will of God...the rule, and everlasting happiness the motive," of that which we ^cafl virtue. The early moralists, then, were not incorrect in slipping from one to other...

...at one time it had. Paley's famous definition of virtue (as 'the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness') — a definition published, by a nice irony of history, in the same year as Kant's Groundwork of the...

...12. Thus Archdeacon William Paley declared that virtue is 'the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness' (Paley [1786] 1817, 36). 13. Although it is not completely clear whether they intend a full naturalistic...

...the writings of William Paley. On this view virtue consisted in 'doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness'. Subjects are bound to obey government according to the following sequence: God willed human happiness;...

...theological utilitarianism, in which virtue was defined as 'the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness" .io Paley s work became widely read, and possibly inspired Bentham to formulate his secular utilitarianism....

...of virtue I particularly admire — it is short. "Virtue is the doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." . . . Paley, a kind of theological utilitarian, put morality within life and supported women's education...