 | 1870 - 688 דפים
...Utilitarians hold, in Mr. Mill's words, " that actions are right in proportion as they tend to produce happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse...is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain : by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure." Professor Grote admits that some kind of happiness... | |
 | John Grote - 1870 - 396 דפים
...reader has not forgotten the utilitarian formula which I quoted some time since from Mr Mill', viz. ' that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, and wrong as they do the reverse.' This to me immediately suggests the question, What sort of happiness... | |
 | 1871 - 528 דפים
...utilitarian school, on the contrary, have maintained that we have no proof of such an intuitional sense ; that actions are right in proportion as they tend...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. But since they have never assigned any other reason for the desire to produce general happiness than... | |
 | 1872 - 832 דפים
...philosophical sect. " The creed," says Mr Mill, " which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness principle, holds that actions...is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain ; by uuhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure." 1 This theory of morality is founded on, and explained... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1872 - 620 דפים
...the foundation of morals, utility, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to produce happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse...is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain : by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.' — Utilitarianism, p. 10. Here we have ' right... | |
 | 1872 - 614 דפים
...the foundation of morals, utility, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to produce happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse...is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain : by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.' — Utilitarianism, p. 10. Here we have 'right'... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - 1872 - 356 דפים
...and painful experience characteristic of our Feelings. The Ethical Theory may be summarized thus : ' Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.' — Mill's Utilitarianism, p. 9. In view of this, the theory is named ' The Happiness Theory,' —... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1872 - 616 דפים
...utility, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to produce happiness, liappiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness....is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain : by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.' — Utilitarianism, p. 10. Here we nave ' right... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1873 - 780 דפים
...of action/' a " The creed," says Mr. JS Mill, " which accepts as the foundation of Morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness principle, holds that actions...is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure." -And he states as " the theory of life on which this... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1873 - 408 דפים
...foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-happiness Principle, holds that actions are rightiu proportion as they tend to. promote happiness, wrong...happiness is intended plea-sure and the absence of pain; bv unhappincss, pain and the privation of pleasure. To give a elear view of the moral standard set... | |
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The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. 
