 | 1860 - 564 σελίδες
...comparison of this theory. " From this account of obligation it follows," as Paley observes, " that we can be obliged to nothing but what we ourselves are to gain or lose something by" (p. 58). On this scheme, too, moral approbation and disapprobation of an action go for nothing, are... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 556 σελίδες
...comparison of this theory. " From this account of obligation it follows," as Paley observes, " that we can be obliged to nothing but what we ourselves are to gain or lose something by" (p. 58). On this scheme, too, moral approbation and disapprobation of an action go for nothing, are... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - 1863 - 290 σελίδες
...lose or gain something by it, for nothing else can be doc^e. OPP°»lta » 'violent motive' to us. And as we should not be obliged to obey the laws or the magistrate, unless rewards 01 punishments, pleasure or pain, somehow or other depended on our obedience; so neither should we,... | |
 | 1865 - 550 σελίδες
...happiness." Or, as Paley has elsewhere more broadly laid down the same principle, " we are obliged to do nothing, but what we ourselves are to gain or lose...something by, for nothing else can be a violent motive." Against this substitution, as he called it, of a scheme of selfish prudence for moral virtue, Coleridge... | |
 | William Fleming - 1867 - 450 σελίδες
...non-compliance with which is not indifferent, but followed by happiness or misery, by punishment or reward. We can be obliged to nothing but what we ourselves are to gain or lose something by. " As we should not be obliged to obey the laws or the magistrate, unless rewards or punishments, pleasure... | |
 | Alfred Barratt - 1869 - 280 σελίδες
...with obedience or rebellion ? Paley himself says ' We can be obliged to nothing but what we ourselves gain or lose something by, for nothing else can be...As we should not be obliged to obey the laws or the magistrates, unless rewards or punishments, pleasure or pain somehow or other depended on our obedience... | |
 | William Fleming - 1870 - 458 σελίδες
...non-compliance with which is not indifferent, but followed by happiness or misery, by punishment or reward. We can be obliged to nothing but what we ourselves are to gain or lose something by. " As we should not be obliged to obey the laws or the magistrate, unless rewards or punishments, pleasure... | |
 | 1871 - 630 σελίδες
...the command of another. And from this account of obligation, it follows that we can be obligtd to do nothing but what we ourselves are to gain or lose...by, for nothing else can be a * violent motive ' to u»."— Patty. To COMPEL (Lat, compellere) denotes that the will of the person was powerless, or was... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1872 - 370 σελίδες
...happiness." Or, as Paley has elsewhere more broadly laid down the same principle, " we are obliged to do nothing, but what we ourselves are to gain or lose...something by, for nothing else can be a violent motive." Against this substitution, as he called it, of a scheme of selfish prudence for moral virtue, Coleridge... | |
 | William Minto - 1881 - 596 σελίδες
...it, we always reckon ourselves to be obliged. "And from this account of obligation, it follows, that we can be obliged to nothing, but what we ourselves are to gain or lose something by : lor nothing else can be a ' violent motive ' to us. As we should not be obliged to obey the laws... | |
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And from this account of obligation it follows, that we can be obliged to nothing, but what we ourselves are to gain or lose something by ; for nothing else can be a ' violent motive ' to us. As we should not be obliged to obey the laws, or the magistrate,... 
