 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
 | Dr. Stuart White, Timothy J. Baldwin - 2004 - 228 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'. Two types of utilitarianism are recognized: • Act utilitarianism adheres precisely to the definition... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 2005 - 484 sayfa
...tend to promote happiness and 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 particular,... | |
 | Robert A. Bowie - 2004 - 356 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 suppose that life has (as they express it) no higher end than pleasure - no better and nobler... | |
 | Thomas Hill Green, David Owen Brink - 2003 - 636 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, (ii. z; cf. ii. 1) Different versions of hedonism correspond to different theories of pleasure and... | |
 | Andrew Bailey - 2004 - 362 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... | |
 | Nicholas Capaldi - 2004 - 472 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.42 Right is defined in terms of good; good is understood as happiness; and happiness is identified... | |
 | Jesper Ryberg, Torbjörn Tännsjö - 2007 - 261 sayfa
...promote happiness, wrong as they tend to promote the reverse of happiness," and that "By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure." Mill famously fails to recognize that these are two commands, not one. He offers little help where... | |
 | Lisa Rasmussen - 2005 - 300 sayfa
...paragraph suggests this, and Mill is even more explicit when he writes in Utilitarianism that "By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure" (1861, p. 210). The point of the proof is to show that happiness is the only thing desirable as an... | |
 | Michael Palmer - 2005 - 200 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... | |
 | Chana B. Cox - 2006 - 302 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 that all desirable things (which are... | |
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