 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 654
...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." * "But then, it must be expedient on the whole, at the long run,... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 686
...by its advocate Dr. Paley, is, ' actions are to be estimated by their tendency to promote happiness. Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rvxle which constitutes the obligation, oi it.1 this system on the Divine benevolence, which he st... | |
 | William Paley - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 430
...promote or diminish the general happiness.' CHAPTER VI. UTILITY. 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. But to all this there seems a plain objection^viz. that many actions... | |
 | William Paley - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 406
...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 it. J The expediency of any action, however, must be estimated by... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 322
...very much to the purpose. It runs thus : ' So then actions are to be estimated by their tendency. (47) 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... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...its advocate Dr. Paley, is, ' actions are to be estimated by their tendency to , promote happiness. Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it.' He founds this system on the Divine benevolence, which he states,... | |
 | Latham Wainewright - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 340
...an apposite exemplification is furnished in the first of the passages quoted by Mr. Dugald Stewart: "Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it,"* &c. But still it is abundantly evident from the context, and the... | |
 | 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 528
...action to promote or diminish the general happiness. Here then Paley arrives at his principle, that ' whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it.' Its utility is to be determined by a consideration of general consequences... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey, Francis Jenks - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...apposite exemplification is furnished in the first of the passages quoted by Mr. Dugald Stewart : ' Whatever is expedient is right. It is the. utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it,' * &c. But still it is abundantly evident from the context, and the... | |
 | 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 620
...and which became so fashionable about the time that Dr. Paley wrote. ' What is expedient,' says he, ' is right : it is the utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it.' So that all reference to God, as to Him who is about our path, and... | |
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Whatever is expedient, is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone, which constitutes the obligation of it. 
