...morality which find expression in the conscience are the generalizations of reason. Utilitarians hold " that actions are right in proportion as they tend...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." l The enjoyment of pleasure and the negation of pain intended by happiness, has reference, however,...

...and painful experience characteristic of our Feelings. The Ethical Theory may be summarized thus: ' Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.'—Mill's Utilitarianism, p. 9. In view of this, the theory is named ' The Happiness Theory,'—Eudaemonism...

...According to the latter, right and wrong are questions of observation and experience, actions " being right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness,...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." There is no room here for the recognition of any original quality iu actions apart from their consequences,...

...be summarized in what Mill and many others have accepted : actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. But happiness has so broad a meaning that in it we may include all the lowest and highest pleasures...

...rescuing it from this utter degradation.* The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions...they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By * The author of this essay has reason for believing himself to be the first person who brought the...

...ends generally desired."—CFV " The creed which accepts, as the foundation of morals, utilit} r , or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions...happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain arid the privation of pleasure."—JS Mill.* UTILIZE, apply to a use; render useful....

...utility or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions ore right in proportion as they (end to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.1 If it be observed, as a fact, that virtue is often desired for its own sake, the explanation...

...only standard of right. "The creed," he wrote, "which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions...is intended pleasure and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure." "Pleasure and the freedom from pain are the only...

...conduct'? Here is the formal statement: "The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, utility or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.' If it be observed, as a fact, that virtue is often desired for its own sake, the explanation is: 'We...

...Mackintosh, p. 389. Again, JS Mill says: 'The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions...reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and~~-j the absence of pain : by unhappiness. pain, and the privation r of pleasure. To give a clear...