 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
 | James Hugh Ryan - 1924 - 426 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 Greeks had founded their pleasure theory on a quantitative basis. Modern Hedonism rejected this... | |
 | Frank Paddock - 1925 - 430 sayfa
...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and l0 the absence of pain, by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure." It does not mean voluptuous living or even seeking after transitory pleasures. To contend that the... | |
 | Edwin Arthur Burtt - 1928 - 620 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...and the privation of pleasure. . . . Pleasure, and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends, and ... all desirable things (which are as... | |
 | Dr. Jas Mand - 228 sayfa
...pleasures dies too. The creed of utilitarianism holds, as John Stuart Mill claimed, that "By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain, by unhappiness, pain, and privation of pleasure".2 The hedonists would suggest that the purpose of our life is to extract as... | |
 | Various - 2002 - 596 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. To give a clear view of the moral standard set up by the theory, much more requires to be said; in... | |
 | Ruth F. Chadwick, Doris Schroeder - 2002 - 384 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. (Utilitarianism, p. 9.) This definition, however, was then modified in a number of ways which quite... | |
 | Bina Gupta - 2002 - 294 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. To give a clear view of the moral standard set up by the theory, much more requires to be said; in... | |
 | Mark Timmons - 2002 - 318 sayfa
...Hedonism Like Bentham, Mill was committed to ethical hedonism as an account of welfare:6 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. . .... | |
 | Marilyn E. Coors - 2003 - 180 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.2 Mill contests Bentham's quantitative hedonism that ranks all pleasures as equal, and contends... | |
 | Christopher Enright - 2002 - 612 sayfa
..."there is no accounting for taste." 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."39 The aim then, according to the famous maxim of Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) is to obtain... | |
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