...any person be called honest who is not virtuous." "What is virtue?" asked Ann. "Virtue consists in doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and was divided by moralists into benevolence, prudence, temperance, and fortitude. These are called the...

...reluctance in any • I find in a Sermon, dated Appleby 1779, this sentence: " Now I describe virtue to be the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, for the take of everlasting happiness." The text is, " Add to your faith virtue."— ED. as. THE MORAL...

...down comes Paley at once with the force of Corporal Trim's hat " plump upon the ground :" — " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...of God and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Let this definition be a proposition or bone of contention, if you will ; it is a bone on which there...

...God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. The good of mankind, therefore, is the subject—the will of God, the rule —and everlasting happiness, the motive of human virtue. The will of God, he subsequently goes on to show, is made known to us partly by revelation, and partly...

...Human Understanding," hook iv. chap. 3. illustration of the debasing vulgarity of his code. " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." So that any act of good to man in obedience to God, if it arise from any motive but a desire of the...

...the foundations of all his theories. Virtue, according to Paley, consists in III. AA 266 ERROR OF " doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and FOR THE SAKE OF EVERLASTING HAPPINESS." This passage is so very important, — as embodying the essence of the theory in very few words, that...

...Scripture (that is, of God) which alone is obviously sufficient. Hence the famous definition, " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." and, in particular, in the human body. In these works we see how complete is the shifting of interest...

...questionable feeling. (I, v.) Paley's definition of virtue gives the foundations of his theory. Virtue is 'the doing good to mankind in obedience to the...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...

...right,2 as a thing independent of utility, he may, like Rousseau, popularise ideas which 1 " Virtue is, * the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...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...

...of Moral and Political Philosophy BOOK I — PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS CHAP. VII — VIRTUE Virtue is 'the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, 845 and for the sake of everlasting happiness.' According to which definition, 'the good of mankind'...