 | William Paley - 1788 - 584 pages
...or diannilh the general happinefs." CHAP. CHAP. VI. UTILITY. SO then actions arc to be eft i mated by their' tendency. * Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which conItitutcs the obligation of it. But to all this there Items a plain objection, viz. that many actions... | |
 | William Paley - 1793 - 430 pages
...ten" dency of that action to promote or diminifh " the general happinefs." CHAP. VI. UTILITY. O then Actions are to be eftimated by their tendency*. Whatever...right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which conltitutes the obligation of it. s * Actions in the abftracl are right or wrong, according to their... | |
 | William Paley - 1793 - 602 pages
...that adlion, to pro" mote or diminifh the general happinefs." CHAP, CHAP. VI. UTILITY. SO then a&ions are to be eftimated by their tendency.* Whatever is...right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which conflitutes the obligation of it. But to all this there feenis a plain objection, viz. that many actions... | |
 | 1802 - 558 pages
...does not mean to admit, let him be heard in his own words. Vol. ip 70. ' Actions are to be eiîimated by their tendency. Whatever is expedient is .right....throughout his work, determined any particular mode of conduit to be right or wrong, by endeavouring to trace its general effect upon mankind at large. If... | |
 | William Paley, William Hamilton Reid - 1810 - 350 pages
...19. Sermons and tracts. 1803. THE BEAUTIES 0» WILLIAM PALEY, DD Actions. 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. The general consequence of any action may be estimated, by asking... | |
 | William Paley - 1810 - 498 pages
...promote or frustrate that effect.|| Actions, in the abstract, then, are right or wrong according to their tendency. Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone that constitutes the obligation of * See Law's Translation of King on the Origin of Evil, 5th ed. prefatory... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - 540 pages
...promote or diminish the general happiness." CHAPTER VI. UTILITY. ,, Oo 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 560 pages
...its paramount authority over every other principle of action. Whatever is expedient (says Dr. Palev) is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it J. . . . , But then, it must be expedient on the whole, at the long... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1819 - 252 pages
...happiness." UTILITY. — THE XECESSITV OT GENERAL RULES. OF RIGHT. 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. You cannot permit one action and forbid another, without shewing... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 348 pages
...paramount 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.J • • • But then, it must be ex'• pedient on the whole,... | |
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Whatever is expedient, is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone, which constitutes the obligation of it. 
