 | 1861 - 882 sayfa
...objection to it, inasmuch as utilitarian moralists have gone beyond almost all others in affirming that the motive has nothing to do with the morality of...the action, though much with the worth of the agent. He who saves a fellow 1861.] [October, creature from drowning does what ia morally right, whether liis... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 120 sayfa
...objection to it, inasmuch as utilitarian moralists have gone beyond almost all others in affirming that the motive has nothing to do with the morality of...the action, though much with the worth of the agent. He who saves a fellow creature from drowning does what is morally right, whether his motive be duty,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 406 sayfa
...objection to it, inasmuch as utilitarian moralists have gone beyond almost all others in affirming that the motive has nothing to do with the morality of...the action, though much with the worth of the agent. He who saves a fellow-creature from drowning does what is morally right, whether his motive be duty,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 108 sayfa
...objection to it, inasmuch as utilitarian moralists have gone beyond almost all others in affirming that the motive has nothing to do with the morality of...the action, though much with the worth of the agent. He who saves a fellow creature from drowning does what is morally right, whether his motive be duty,... | |
 | James McCosh - 1866 - 424 sayfa
...of. But Mr. Mill is too wise a man to make beneficial tendency a test of excellence in the agent. " The motive has nothing to do with the morality of...action, though much with the worth of the agent." He tells us that it is a misapprehension of the utilitarian mode of thought to conceive it as implying... | |
 | Patrick Proctor Alexander - 1868 - 202 sayfa
...in intention — I once more distinctly plead. If this be not enough for Mr. Mill, who holds that ' the motive has nothing to do with the morality of the action,' I am helpless, except to suggest, that perhaps his own Utilitarian Theory, which involves that extraordinary... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1869 - 532 sayfa
...Deontology, vol. ip 126. Mr. Mill's doctrine appears somewhat different from this, but the difference is I think only apparent. He says : ' The motive has nothing to do with the morality of the notion, though much with the worth of the agent,' and he afterwards explains this last statement by... | |
 | John Grote - 1870 - 396 sayfa
...utilitarian moralists, as compared with others, the praise of having taken special care to maintain that the motive has nothing to do with the morality of...the action, though much with the worth of the agent. J 1 , j.1. J Jl/J f tarianism I will ask the reader to bear this in mind for a W in his short time... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1876 - 532 sayfa
...have a motive different from the pursuit of pleasure or of shuaning pain.'—Deontology, vol. ip 120. Mr. Mill's doctrine appears somewhat different from...motive has nothing to do with the morality of the notion, though much with the worth of the agent,' and he afterwards explains this last statement by... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1877 - 528 sayfa
...of the agent have absolutely no influence on the morality of the act. This is admitted by Mill, who says, "The motive has nothing to do with the morality...action, though much with the worth of the agent." The test of a virtuous act he represents as its tendency to benefit mankind. The man, then, who invents... | |
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... the motive has nothing to do with the morality of the action, though much with the worth of the agent. 
