...deontological thinkers can hardly be overestimated. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) wrote, for example, that "in the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth we read the...utility. To do as you would be done by, and to love your neighbor as yourself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality." 18 RM Hare holds that...

...produce the reverse of happiness. By 'happiness' is intended pleasure and the absence of pain ...," that "In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read...utility. To do as you would be done by, and to love your neighbor as yourself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality." One can love one's...

...evoked by religion may become active in support of such morality, he gives the answer to our problem. "In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth we read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility."2 Like Mill, Woodsworth saw the Christian revelation as "intended to inform the hearts and...

...utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator. In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the..."To do as you would be done by," and "to love your neighbor as yourself," constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality. As the means of making...

..."What you hate, do to no man." John Stuart Mill, a founding father of utilitarian ethics, affirmed, "In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read...utility. To do as you would be done by, and to love your neighbor as yourself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.'" These parallels are...

...Bernard Williams (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973), 69-74. 12. It is not cant when Mill says, "In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read...utility. To do as you would be done by, and to love your neighbor as yourself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality" (Utilitarianism, chapter...

...universal practical love that led Mill to assert that utilitarianism is a profoundly Christian doctrine: " 'To do as you would be done by,' and 'to love your...perfection of utilitarian morality" (Utilitarianism, pp. 16—17). There is also a case to be made that a natural law view like John Finnis's has the resources...

...utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator. In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the...complete spirit of the ethics of utility. To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian...

...social and religious purposes. Christ, he suggests, is the very embodiment of the utilitarian standard: "In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility." The "ideal perfection of utilitarian morality," he further explains, is identical to Christ's precept...

...ed. Roy R Easier (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 8:333. 112. John Stuart Mill, "In the Golden Rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility" ("Utilitarianism"), Essays on Ethics, Religion, and Society, in Collected Works, ed. JM Robson (Toronto:...