 Obligation is the necessity of doing or omitting any action in order to be happy: ie, when there is such a relation between an agent and an action that the agent cannot be happy without doing or omitting that action, then the agent is said to be obliged...  An Essay on the Origin of Evil - Σελίδα xxxviiτων William King - 1732 - 630 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Gustavus Watts Cunningham - 1897 - 748 σελίδες
...Obligation is the necessity of doing or omitting any action in order to be happy : ie, when there is such a relation between an agent and an action that the...without doing or omitting that action, then the agent is said to be obliged to do or omit that action. So that obligation is evidently founded upon the prospect... | |
 | Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge - 1897 - 456 σελίδες
...Obligation is the necessity of doing or omitting any action in order to be happy: ie when there is such a relation between an Agent and an action that the...without doing or omitting that action, then the agent is said to be obliged to do or omit that action. So that obligation is evidently founded upon the prospect... | |
 | Ernest Albee - 1902 - 450 σελίδες
...Obligation is the necessity of doing or omitting any action in order to be happy: ie, when there is such a relation between an agent and an action that the...without doing or omitting that action, then the agent is said to be obliged to do or omit that action. So that obligation is evidently founded upon the prospect... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1920 - 494 σελίδες
...Obligation is the necessity of doing, or omitting any action in order to be happy — ie, when there is such a relation between an agent and an action that the...without doing or omitting that action, then the agent is said to be obliged to do or omit that action. So that obligation is evidently founded upon the prospect... | |
 | David Daiches Raphael - 1991 - 440 σελίδες
...Obligation is the necessity of doing or omitting any action in order to be 463 happy: ie when there is such a relation between an agent and an action that the...without doing or omitting that action, then the agent is said to be obliged to do or omit that action. So that obligation is evidently founded upon the prospect... | |
 | Richard B. Brandt - 1992 - 416 σελίδες
...is just "the necessity of doing or omitting any action in order to be happy: ie, when there is such a relation between an Agent and an action that the...without doing or omitting that action, then the Agent is said to be obliged to do or omit that action." This passage is consistent with thinking, as he later... | |
 | J. B. Schneewind - 2003 - 696 σελίδες
...Obligation is the necessity of doing or omitting any action in order to be happy: ie, when there is such a relation between an agent and an action that the...without doing or omitting that action, then the agent is said to be obliged to do or omit that action. So that obligation is evidently founded upon the prospect... | |
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