 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1840 - 616 Seiten
...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 will 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... | |
 | George Combe - 1840 - 484 Seiten
...dictates of a moral sense. Dr. Paley 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 endeavors to show that sympathy is the source of moral... | |
 | Robert Mudie - 1840 - 352 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1841 - 608 Seiten
...dictates of a moral sense. Dr. Paley 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 show that sympathy is the source of moral... | |
 | 1841 - 632 Seiten
...dictates of a moral sense. Dr. Paley does not admit such a faculty, but declares virtue to consist 1 in doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.' Dr. Adam Smith endeavours to show that sympathy is the source of moral... | |
 | Francis Patrick Kenrick - 1842 - 438 Seiten
...vg fides, spes, charitas, veritate, (1) 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.... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 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;... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 618 Seiten
...relating to it has been pretty well agreed upon, and it is generally understood to include thus much : The doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting- happiness. Obedience to God is the principle, the good of mankind the matter,... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 620 Seiten
...relating to it has been pretty well agreed upon, and it is generally understood to include thus much : The doing' good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting1 happiness. Obedience to God is the principle, the good of mankind the matter,... | |
 | 1842 - 554 Seiten
...definition consists of three clauses, 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,... | |
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the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
