 | Michael D. Vose - 1999 - 650 頁
...for the people; rationalists and Tractarians might denounce as immoral Paley's definition of virtue, 'the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness'; but the Church was still regarded, particularly in the countryside, as the arm of the secular law,... | |
 | Isabel Rivers - 2000 - 407 頁
...human nature, Paley restated the theory of virtue he had developed from Locke, Gay, Law, and Hartley: 'VIRTUE is "the doing good to mankind, in obedience...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." According to which definition, "the good of mankind" is the subject; the "will of God" the rule; and... | |
 | Linda C. Raeder - 2002 - 418 頁
...number is binding because it is required by the will of God. Virtue, he said, consists in "the doing of good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness."45 As Plamenatz explains, there was for Paley only one "true utilitarian" in existence —... | |
 | J. B. Schneewind - 2003 - 696 頁
...are concerned to be, about the natural history and constitution of the human species. Chapter VII: Virtue Virtue is "the doing good to mankind, in obedience...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." According to which definition, "the good of mankind" is the subject; the "will of God," the rule; and... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - 2003 - 452 頁
...interest and hope), prudent habits and good health. Virtue is defined 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'.8 The good of mankind is the subjectmatter of virtue; the will of God provides the rule;... | |
 | Herbert James Paton - 2002 - 216 頁
...the status in philosophical thinking that at one time it had. Paley's famous definition of virtue (as 'the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness') — a definition published, by a nice irony of history, in the same year as Kant's Groundwork of the... | |
 | Denys Leighton - 2004 - 402 頁
...the Creator in every work of Nature' (Burrow, Evolution and Society, p. 133) and defined virtue as '"doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting salvation"' (quoted in DC Somervell, English Thought in the Nineteenth Century (London: Methuen, 1929),... | |
 | Paul Helm - 2002 - 200 頁
...striking in the case of William Paley. In his Moral and Political Philosphy (1785) virtue is defined as 'the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, for the sake of everlasting happiness'.18 Virtue and prudence are identified in everything but their... | |
 | John Hick - 2004 - 468 頁
...he desires'. 11. Immanuel Kant [1785] 1947, ch. 2. 12. Thus Archdeacon William Paley declared that virtue is 'the doing good to mankind, in obedience...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness' (Paley [1786] 1817, 36). 13. Although it is not completely clear whether they intend a full naturalistic... | |
 | Knud Haakonssen - 2006 - 668 頁
...William Paley had argued in favour of a theological utilitarianism, in which virtue was defined as 'the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness" .io Paley s work became widely read, and possibly inspired Bentham to formulate his secular utilitarianism.... | |
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the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
