...inert" (Revs 1789:140.9* Wollstonecraft "particularly admired" William Paley's definition of virtue: "the doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of ev erlasting happiness" (Letters 1^S'ju^G).10* But this obedience is not the slavish sort; she did...

...who, as well as Hume, had been a careful reader of Kdwards, that it is "the doing good to man kind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Kdwards held it to be in some sense, the same as beauty; in other words, to be every voluntary act,...

...Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (10th Amer. ed.; Boston, 1821), Bk.ILCh.5. Cf. Bk. I,Ch. 7: "Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." (3) Rules about the way in which constituents may be combined in ethical statements appear to some...

...sense', and proceeded to a system that combined utilitarian ethics and Christianity. Virtue, he said, is 'the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness'. Actions were then estimated, in moral terms, by their tendency to produce this result (1809, 12-16,...

...given to Paley's definition of virtue [in Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, p. 27], viz, "Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." [LSM] Cf. Hugh Swinton Legare, "Jeremy Bentham and the Utilitarians," in The Writings of Hugh Swinton...

...principle of utilitarianism that anticipated Jeremy Bentham. According to Paley, virtue consisted of "doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God and for the sake of [one's own] everlasting happiness." He believed that "whatever is expedient is right" and that it was...

...and health (I.6). The importance of these points becomes clear from Paley's definition of "virtue" as "the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." When we act virtuously we take human happiness as our goal, the will of God as the basis for our rule,...

...someone else's "Act." For example, one could defend or oppose Paley's thesis that virtue consists in "doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness."2'1 These "huddlings" — college slang for the way most students prepared and performed...

...accepted — by the public they were addressing."7 This 4 Compare Paley's famous definition of virtue: "the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, Book I, Chap. VII (21 st. ed.,London, 1818, vol. I, p....

...interest and hope), prudent habits and good health. Virtue is denned in a frankly utilitarian spirit. It is 'the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness'.5 The good of mankind is the subjectmatter of virtue; the will of God provides the rule;...