| Thomas Rawson Birks - 1874 - 348 sayfa
...condense the lessons of experience through long ages of mankind. Mr Mill's definition is in these words. "The creed. which accepts as the foundation of Morals,...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; >• by unhappiness, pain, and the prevention... | |
| Thomas Rawson Birks - 1874 - 330 sayfa
...condense the lessons of experience through long ages of mankind. Mr Mill's definition is in these words. "The creed which accepts as the foundation of Morals,...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the prevention... | |
| Henry Calderwood - 1874 - 328 sayfa
...and painful experience characteristic of our Feelings. The Ethical Theory may be summarized thus : ' Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...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,' —... | |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1876 - 532 sayfa
...good.'—Bentham's Deontology, vol. ip 14. Mr. Mill accordingly defines the principle of utility, without nny special reference to man. ' The creed which accepts...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.'—Utilitarianism, pp. 0-10. desire. I cannot look forward to a time when no one will wear... | |
| 1885 - 672 sayfa
...ultimate good ; while, on the other hand, the " greatest-happiness principle" defined as "the creed which holds that actions are right in proportion as they...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness," is not primd facie bound up with the doctrine that all desires are desires of pleasure. It is worthy... | |
| 1877 - 398 sayfa
...tendency to produce physical good; moral evil is evil only by its tendency to producer physical evil." " Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." Here are several important defects in utilitarianism as a system of morality. First of all, morality... | |
| 1877 - 824 sayfa
...rapidly carrying philosophy intochaos. As defined elsewhere by the younger Mill, Utilitarianism is " the creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle."* But in a world ?:> full of misery as this one, where life as it is is not worth having and the possibility... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1877 - 828 sayfa
...rapidly carrying philosophy into chaos. As defined elsewhere by the younger Mill, Utilitarianism is " the creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle."* But in a world so full of misery as this one, where life as it is is not worth having and the possibility... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1877 - 906 sayfa
...of right and wrong, on which the ancient Stoic founded morality. Still more explicitly, this creed holds "that actions are right, in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, that is, pleasure and the absence of pain ; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness,... | |
| Charles Porterfield Krauth - 1878 - 1082 sayfa
...that actions are right because they are useful, "or fitted to gain ends generally desired."— CFV " The creed which accepts, as the foundation of morals,...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... | |
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