 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. By happiness is intended...  An Examination of the Utilitarian Philosophy - Sayfa 30John Grote tarafından - 1870 - 362 sayfaTam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | 1861 - 882 sayfa
...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness 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 by the theory, much more requires to be said ; in... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 120 sayfa
...mode of avoiding tiresome circumlocution. reverse of happiness. By happiness 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 by the theory, much more requires to be said ; in... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1864 - 502 sayfa
...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure." Referring to some supplementary explanations, he adds : — " But these do not affect the theory of... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 406 sayfa
...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness 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 by the theory, much more requires to be said ; in... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 108 sayfa
...mode of avoidbij tiresome circumlocution. reverse of happiness. By happiness 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 by the theory, much more requires to be said; in... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1865 - 666 sayfa
...tendency to happiness," is the standard of morality. " By happiness," he says, " is intended pleasure and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure." " Pleasure and the freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends, and all desirable things... | |
 | 1879 - 736 sayfa
...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness 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 by the theory, much more requires to be said ; in... | |
 | 1867 - 510 sayfa
...happiness ; wrong, as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure." But, notwithstanding these postulata, we find Mr. Mill thus expressing himself in another place : "... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1868 - 904 sayfa
...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure. The things included under pleasure and pain mav require farther explanation ; but this does not aflect... | |
 | 1868 - 612 sayfa
...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiuess. By happiness is intendedpleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure. (Utilitarianism, p. 9.) (2) It would be absurd that while, in estimating ail other things, quality... | |
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