 | Frank Thilly - 1900 - 368 pagina’s
...and good will.3 10. Paley. — According to William Paley, " actions are to be estimated according to their tendency. Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule which constitutes the obligation of it."4 " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the... | |
 | Frank Thilly - 1900 - 374 pagina’s
...and good will.3 10. Paley. — According to William Paley, "actions are to be estimated according to their tendency. Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule which constitutes the obligation of it."4 " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the... | |
 | Ernest Albee - 1902 - 450 pagina’s
...Paley takes no pains to use language that might be expected to conciliate his opponents. He says: " Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it." 1 Paley shows his good judgment in following Gay and Tucker with... | |
 | Marion Parris - 1909 - 114 pagina’s
...action, in place of the rationalistic criterion of mere identity. Actions are to be universally estimated by their tendency. Whatever is expedient is right. "It is the utility of any moral rule which alone constitutes the obligation to it."20 Utility as a universal criterion for moral judgments... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1920 - 494 pagina’s
...the will of God, and is the mere equivalent of the earlier : " 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." ' Of course, Paley anticipates all the objections as to the pernicious... | |
 | Martha McMackin Garland, Martha M. Garland - 1980 - 216 pagina’s
...Philosophy, Boston, 1825, p. 62. 'So then 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.' 14. Bcntham, of course, did not view his and Paley's work as at... | |
 | Robert Hole - 2004 - 348 pagina’s
...pp. 39-40. 339-40. " Ibid., pp. 59-60. do. That was determined purely by the utilitarian calculus; 'whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the moral obligation of it."4 However, since the greatest happiness of the greatest number... | |
 | David Daiches Raphael - 1991 - 448 pagina’s
...contrary. CHAP. VI — UTILITY So then actions are to be estimated by their tendency*. Whatever 854 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... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - 1999 - 452 pagina’s
...2, 2; 1. p. 44. • Ibid., p. 45. • Principles, 2, 3; 1, p. 46. « Ibid., p. 47. • Ibid., p. 46. is expedient, is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it.'1 And in estimating the consequences of actions we should ask what... | |
 | Isabel Rivers - 2000 - 407 pagina’s
...1k)illt Oilt, tllJS iSpPCt Of foS tllCor)' \\\\M him with Hume, though Paley's version was much cruder: 'Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it.' Since utility is defined by general not particular consequences,... | |
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Whatever is expedient, is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone, which constitutes the obligation of it. 
