...in each of which a grave error is involved. " Virtue consists in doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." It is enough to say, that benevo( lence is not_lhfi_ipAflZ?.d.uty.o£.ai8n ; that right is of inher...

...in each of which a grave error is involved. " Virtue consists in doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." It is enough to say, that benevolence is not the whole duty of man ; that right is of inherent and...

...S. Thorn. 1. 2. qu. Iv. art. iv. Paley dicit : " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Moral Philosophy, 1. i. ch. vu. Omni ex parte peccat hœc definitio. (2) Ibidem. Ad sexlurn. VOL. II.—...

...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. According to which definition," he continues, " the good of mankind is the subject ; the will of God...everlasting happiness the motive, of human virtue." Now it may be remarked in the first place, that what he calls the "subject" and the " rule," are not...

...the one is as faulty as the other. " Virtue is," says he, " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. According to which definition," he continues, " the good of mankind is the subject ; the will of God the rule ; and everlasting happiness...

...We ought, in all things, to seek His glory ; the first desire of our hearts * According to Paley's definition, " the good of mankind " is the subject;...everlasting happiness," the motive of human virtue. —Eo. ought to be " Thy will be done ;" and although it be impossible, in this state of existence,...

...Paley does not admit such a faculty, but declares virtue to consist in doing to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. Dr. Adam Smith endeavors to show that sympathy is the source of moral approbation. Dr. Reid, Mr. Stewart,...

...shafts was Paley's well-known definition of virtue as " the doing of good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Or, as Paley has elsewhere more broadly laid down the same principle, " we are obliged to do nothing,...

...does not admit such a faculty, but declares virtue to consist " in doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Dr Adam Smith endeavours to shew that sympathy is the source of moral approbation. Dr Reid. Mr Stewart,...

...philosophical portion of the chapter on Virtue. " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness."* It is not perhaps very important to observe, that these words, which he offers as a "definition," ought...