 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 780 Seiten
...ourselves and others. Adam Smith refers it to the principle of Sympathy. Paley, who read Edwards with care, defines Virtue to be " The Doing Good to mankind in obedience to the Will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Cumberland, in his Laws of Nature, justly regards it as consisting... | |
 | George Combe - 1830 - 732 Seiten
...but is also an adherent of the selfish system, under a modified form. He makes virtue consist in " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness \\." According to this doctrine, " the will of God is our rule, but private... | |
 | William Paley - 1830 - 406 Seiten
...cold indifference. ' Virtue,' as Mr Paley, in the words of the bishop of Carlisle, § defines it, ' is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. The " good of mankind," therefore, is the subject, the " will of God... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 386 Seiten
...society ; 2. That vice has no advantage over virtue, even in this world. CHAP. VII. VIRTUE. Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. In this definition, the 'good of mankind' is the subject ; the ' will... | |
 | William Paley - 1831 - 624 Seiten
...virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. „ CHAPTER VII. Virtue. ^ . •>• VIRTUE is H 2 2 X fmrf for the sake of > everlasting happiness.*) *• A According to whicli definition, "the good of... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1832 - 340 Seiten
...practical chapter on Happiness, and the 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... | |
 | Johann Gaspar Spurzheim - 1833 - 390 Seiten
...Even Dr. Paley is an adherent of the selfish system under a modified form. He makes virtue consist in the doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God and for the sake of everlasting happiness. According to him the will of God is our rule, but private happiness... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1833 - 378 Seiten
...the nature of virtue, may be said to contain the essence or kernel of his whole theory. " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. " According to which definition, the good of mankind is the subject... | |
 | 1833 - 424 Seiten
...a violent motive, resulting * Paley, in his Moral Philosophy, Book I. Chap. vii. says : " Virtue is 'the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.' According to this definition, 'the good of mankind ' is the subject... | |
 | Johann Gaspar Spurzheim - 1833 - 430 Seiten
...Even Dr. Paley is an adherent of the selfish system under a modified form. He makes virtue consist in the doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God and for the sake of everlasting happiness. According to him the will of God is our rule, but private happiness... | |
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the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
