 But though reason, when fully assisted and improved, be sufficient to instruct us in the pernicious or useful tendency of qualities and actions ; it is not alone sufficient to produce any moral blame or approbation. Utility is only a tendency to a certain...  THE MONTHLY REVIEW - Sivu 14tekijä(t) Several Hands - 1752Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Thomas Fowler, J. M. Wilson - 1886 - 186 sivua
...instruct us in the pernicious or useful tendency of qualities and actions ; it is not alone sufficient to produce any moral blame or approbation. Utility...certain end ; and were the end totally indifferent to us, we should feel the same indifference towards the means. It is requisite a sentiment should here... | |
 | Thomas Fowler, John Matthias Wilson - 1886 - 184 sivua
...instruct us in the pernicious or useful tendency of qualities and actions ; it is not alone sufficient to produce any moral blame or approbation. Utility...certain end ; and were the end totally indifferent to us, we should feel the same indifference towards the means. It is requisite a sentiment should here... | |
 | James Seth - 1898 - 54 sivua
...section on the question, " Why utility pleases," he ends by simply accepting the fact that it pleases. " Utility is only a tendency to a certain end ; and were the end totally indifferent to us, we should feel the same indifference towards the means. It is requisite a sentiment should here... | |
 | David Hume - 1902 - 419 sivua
...instruct us in the pernicious or useful tendency of qualities and actions ; it is not alone sufficient to produce any moral blame or approbation. Utility...certain end ; and were the end totally indifferent to us, we should feel the same indifference towards the means. It is requisite a sentiment should here... | |
 | Edna Aston Shearer - 1915 - 92 sivua
...instruct us in the pernicious or useful tendencies of qualities and actions ; it is not alone sufficient to produce any moral blame or approbation. Utility...certain end; and were the end totally indifferent to us, we should feel the same indifference toward the means. It is requisite a sentiment should here... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1920 - 494 sivua
...moral blame or approbation. Utility [ie public as distinguished from private utility or self-interest] is only a tendency to a certain end ; and were the end totally indifferent to us we should feel the same indifference towards the means. It is requisite a sentiment should here... | |
 | David Hume - 1927 - 444 sivua
...instruct us in the pernicious or useful tendency of qualities and actions ; it is not alone sufficient to produce any moral blame or approbation. Utility...certain end; and were the end totally indifferent to us, we should feel the same indifference towards the means. It is requisite a sentiment should here... | |
 | David Daiches Raphael - 1991 - 448 sivua
...instruct us in the pernicious or useful tendency of qualities and actions; it is not alone sufficient to produce any moral blame or approbation. Utility...certain end; and were the end totally indifferent to us, we should feel the same indifference towards the means. It is requisite a sentiment should here... | |
 | Terence Penelhum - 1992 - 240 sivua
...instruct us in the pernicious or useful tendency or qualities and actions; it is not alone sufficient to produce any moral blame or approbation. Utility...certain end; and were the end totally indifferent to us, we should feel the same indifference towards the means. It is requisite a sentiment should here... | |
 | Mark Johnson - 1993 - 302 sivua
...was therefore at least partially correct in recognizing a general sympathy as the basis for morality: "Utility is only a tendency to a certain end; and were the end totally indifferent to us, we should feel the same indifference towards the means. It is requisite a sentiment should here... | |
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