Moral Principles in

the Judgement of
Morality
 1. A Good Act which is done for
a Good Motive becomes doubly
Good.
• Goodness becomes doubled
• Act takes out a new goodness out of a
good motive.
2. An Evil Act is done for an Evil
Motive becomes doubly Evil.

• Evil becomes doubled

• Takes on a new malice of evil out of
an evil motive.
3. A Good Act which is done for
an Evil Motive becomes Evil.
• Evil motive is strong enough to vitiate
the goodness of an act.
• If evil motive is not the entire motive of the
act or not the whole reason, it is partially
evil.
4. An Evil Act is done for a Good
Motive does not becomes Good.
• Whether what the motive is, if the agent is
attached to it, the act remains to be what is.
• The end does not justify the means.
• Good motive is not sufficient reason for doing
evil act.
 5. An indifferent act which
is done for a Good motive
becomes Good.

• Good motive qualifies the act as good.

 6. An indifferent act which
is done for an Evil motive
becomes EVIL.

• Evil motive qualifies the act as evil.

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