 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...  The North American Review - Sayfa 250editör: - 1865Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Alexander Bain - 1869 - 350 sayfa
...they tend to promote 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 may require farther explanation ; bnt this does not affect... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1869 - 348 sayfa
...they tend to promote 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 may require farther explanation ; but this does not affect... | |
 | John Grote - 1870 - 396 sayfa
...All systems of morality take account of the end of actions, and may so far be considered utilitarian. and the absence of pain: by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.' The utilitarian theory of life is, ' that pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - 1872 - 356 sayfa
...matter of agreement. The range of facts with which we have to deal is also well defined. ' By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure.' — Mill's Util. p. 10. Pleasures and pains of all kinds are here included, whether connected with... | |
 | 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 sayfa
...they tend to produce 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.' — Utilitarianism, p. 10. Here we have ' right ' and ' wrong ' in all their full-blown vigour. We... | |
 | 1872 - 614 sayfa
...they tend to produce 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.' — Utilitarianism, p. 10. Here we have 'right' and 'wrong' in all their full-blown vigour. We ask,... | |
 | 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 sayfa
...produce happiness, liappiness, 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.' — Utilitarianism, p. 10. Here we nave ' right ' and ' wrong ' in all their full-blown vigour. We... | |
 | John Llewelyn Davies - 1873 - 376 sayfa
...they tend to produce 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.' Professor Grote admits that some kind of happiness is the end of all action, that ' the happiness of... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1873 - 772 sayfa
...they ; tend to promote 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." And he states as " the theory of life on which this theory of morality is grounded, — that pleasure... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - 1874 - 328 sayfa
...matter of agreement. The range of facts with which we have to deal is also well defined. ' By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure.' — Mill's Util. p. 10. Pleasures and pains of all kinds are here included, whether connected with... | |
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