...the right as the agreeable, or, to use the very precise and definite language of John Stuart Mill, " Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...is intended pleasure and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness pain and the privation of pleasure." l A sentence like this is quite without significance...

...misery, which is the opposite of happiness, as the sum of the pains. With these conceptions Mill says, " Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." In other words, an action is right or wrong according to its fitness to advance or to retard the happiness...

...opposite of happiness, as the sum of the pains. With these conceptions Mill says, " Actions are right iu proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." In other words, an action is right or wrong according to its fitness to advance or to retard the happiness...

...Bentham, but yet feels distinctly the influence of the idealistic tendencies of thought. " Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions...happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure." 7 In the support of this thesis Mill departs considerably...

...hedonistic view is thus stated by Mill : * " The creed 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. To give a clear view of the moral standard set up...

...definition of the term is as follows: "The creed 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. To give a clear idea of the moral theory, much 'more...

...definition of Utilitarianism is as follows : " The creed 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." Thus this theory, estimating actions according to...

...dar.20) — Proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tenil to produce the rcverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure ..." Vgl. dazu aa 0. p. 11 12, Ober die verschiedene...

...following is best for our purposes: " The creed 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 nnhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure. To give a clear view of the moral standard set up...

...Such confusion of terms cannot affect the real meaning of the moral concepts. It is true that he who holds that " actions are right in proportion as they...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness," 8 may, by a merely intellectual process, pass judgment on the moral character of particular acts ;...