| 1885 - 660 sayfa
...ultimate good ; while, on the other hand, the " greatest-happiness principle" denned as " the creed which holds that actions are right in proportion as they...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness," is not primA facie bound up with the doctrine that all desires are desires of pleasure. It is worthy... | |
| 1885 - 684 sayfa
...ultimate good; while, on the other hand, the "greatest-happiness principle" denned as "the creed which holds that actions are right in proportion as they...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness," is not primdfatie bound up with the doctrine that all desires are desires of pleasure. It is worthy... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 sayfa
...the promotion of it the test by which to judge of all human conduct'? Here is the formal statement: . . . linked pro|x>rtion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong a» they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.'... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1887 - 154 sayfa
...in the language, and offers, in many cases, a convenient mode of avoiding tiresome circumlocution. Happiness -Principle, holds that actions | are right in proportion as they tend to promotoJiaEomess, wrong as they tend to j - produce the _reverse of happiness. By_ / happiness is intended... | |
| Robert Watts - 1888 - 440 sayfa
...Utilitarian theory of its nature. Mr. Mill thus states the Utilitarian doctrine on this point : — " 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... | |
| Joseph Rickaby - 1888 - 396 sayfa
...object and end of life is pleasure : which is the position laid down in so many words by Mill (1. c.), that " actions are right in proportion' as they tend to promote happiness ;" and " by happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain." If Hedonism were sound doctrine,... | |
| Paul Carus - 1890 - 126 sayfa
...is to be classed among intuitionalists. Mr. John Stuart Mill defines Utilitarianism as follows : " The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals,...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, ard the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation... | |
| Henry Hughes - 1890 - 392 sayfa
...Mill's position. He opens his argument by explaining what utilitarianism is. He tells us, first, that "the creed which accepts as the foundation of morals,...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." l And he says, " This " (ie, an existence exempt as far as possible from pain, and as rich as possible... | |
| William Fleming - 1890 - 458 sayfa
...utilitate, sine ullis premiis fructibusve, per seipsum jure possit lavdari " (De Finibus, ii. 14). " 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... | |
| William Stanley Jevons - 1890 - 346 sayfa
...Utilitarian doctrine is explained by Mill with sufficient accuracy in pp. 9 and 10, where he says— ' 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... | |
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