 | James Frederick Ferrier - 1866 - 620 sayfa
...Jeremy Bentham, " has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pleasure and pain. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do." Whether, and in what sense, pleasure and pain may be said to be the two sovereign masters of mankind... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1868 - 902 sayfa
...chapter, entitled ' THE PRINCIPLE OP UTILITY,' begins thus : — ' Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and...ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the ouo hand, the standard of right and wrong ; on the other, the chain of causes and effects, are... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1868 - 904 sayfa
...chapter, entitled ' THE PRINCIPLE OP UTILITY,' begins thus : — ' Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and...ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand, the standard of right and wrong ; on the other, the chaiu of causes and effects, are... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - 1868 - 178 sayfa
...Principles of Morals and Legislation, where he says, — ' Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is...ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand, the standard of right and wrong, on the other, the chain of causes and effects, are... | |
 | 1868 - 986 sayfa
...God's law. He had thus described his theory : — " Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure. It is...ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do They govern us in all we say ; in all we do ; in all we think : every effort we make to throw off our... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1868 - 368 sayfa
...may bo learned by two characteristic passages: — "Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is...ought to do. as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand, the standard of right and wrong ; on the other, the chain of causes and effects are... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1869 - 348 sayfa
...first chapter, entitled ' THE PEINCIPLE OF UTILITY/ begins thus : — * Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and...ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand, the standard of right and wrong ; on the other, the chain of causes and effects, are... | |
 | 1872 - 866 sayfa
...diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question. . . Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and...to do, as well as to determine what we shall do." Mr. Bentham's naked vigour of statement seldom leaves much room for ambiguity, and the last sentence... | |
 | John Frederick Denison Maurice - 1872 - 286 sayfa
...passages of his Principles of Morals and Legislation. " Nature has placed mankind under the government " of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure. It is...to do, as " well as to determine what we shall do. On the one " hand, the standard of right and wrong, on the other " the chain of causes and effects,... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - 1872 - 356 sayfa
...of actions. The phrase was first used by Priestley. ' Nature has placed Mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do.' — Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789), 1. 1, Works, ed. by Bowring, 1.... | |
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Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. 
