 | William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - 1815 - 598 str.
...gives a much more comprehensive account of virtue, which he defines " to be, any action or actions of an intelligent being, proceeding from kind and...intention, and having a tendency to contribute to general happiness." According lo this, together with his previous theory, virtue is justice in action springing... | |
 | William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - 1822 - 638 str.
...gives a much more comprehensive account of virtue, which he defines " to be, any action or actions ef an intelligent being, proceeding from kind and benevolent...intention, and having a tendency to contribute to general happiness." According tp this, together with his previous theory, virtue is justice in action springing... | |
 | John Carlos Rowe - 2000 - 398 str.
...provides a clear definition of virtue in this respect: "I would define virtue to be any action or actions of an intelligent being proceeding from kind and benevolent...intention and having a tendency to contribute to general happiness." 20. Pamela Clemit. The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin. Brockden Brown.... | |
 | Hans Ulrich Seeber - 2003 - 316 str.
...Godwin defines in Political Justice as follows: "[...] I would define virtue to be any action or actions of an intelligent being, proceeding from kind and...intention, and having a tendency to contribute to general happiness."10 By endowing his shepherds with this kind of virtue, Godwin fuses the Arcadian and the... | |
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I would define virtue," writes Godwin, "to be any action or actions of an intelligent being, proceeding from kind and benevolent intention, and having a tendency to contribute to general... 