 I conceive it to be the business of moral science to deduce from the laws of life and the conditions of existence what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness and what kinds to produce unhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are to...  Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics - Sayfa 68John Dewey tarafından - 1891 - 253 sayfaTam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Edmund Burke - 1880 - 702 sayfa
...establishment he looks forward, not only to ascertain results, but to explain and predict them ; " to deduce from the laws of life and the conditions...necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to unhappiness. " Rational utilitarianism " does not take welfare for its immediate object of pursuit,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1891 - 580 sayfa
...lawgiver, he affirms of the ethical science which he has evolved out of his own consciousness that ' its deductions are to be recognized as laws of conduct...and are to be conformed to irrespective of a direct estimate of happiness or misery. ' f Are ' Spencer, p. 166. ' Indefinite judgment of qualities,' and... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 120 sayfa
...empirical generalizations from the observed results of conduct, and completely attainable only by deducing, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence,...happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. With the exception of the word ' necessarily,' I have no dissent to express from this doctrine ; and... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 108 sayfa
...empirical generalizations from the observed results of conduct, and completely attainable only by deducing, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence,...happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. With the exception of the by no means applied or held applicable universally; on the contrary, as I... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 406 sayfa
...empirical generalizations from the observed results of conduct, and completely attainable only by deducing, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence,...happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. With the exception of the word "necessarily," I have no dissent to express from this doctrine; and... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1865 - 382 sayfa
...he proceeds to say that he thinks the end of morality is "completely attainable, only by deducing, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence,...happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness." Upon that you observe as follows:—" With the exception of the word necessarily, I have no dissent... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1865 - 394 sayfa
...he proceeds to say that he thinks the end of morality is " completely attainable, only by deducing, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence,...happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness." Upon that you observe as follows : — " With the exception of the word necessarily, I have no dissent... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1865 - 380 sayfa
...he proceeds to say that he thinks the end of morality is " completely attainable, only by deducing, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence,...action necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinda to produce unhappiness." Upon that you observe as follows : — " With the exception of the word... | |
 | 1893 - 464 sayfa
...even if we accept those general principles from which he proceeds. Mr. Spencer affirms that it is the business of Moral Science to deduce from the laws...life and the conditions of existence what kinds of actions tend to produce happiness and what kinds to produce uuhappiness. An examination of his books,... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1868 - 904 sayfa
...accidental, but must be necessary consequences of the constitution of things ; and I conceive it to be the business of Moral Science to deduce, from the laws...conformed to irrespective of a direct estimation of happiuess or misery. ' Perhaps an analogy will most clearly show my meaning. Daring its early stages,... | |
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