 | 1890 - 72 sayfa
...by doing so they can hope to contribute anything towards rescuing it from this utter degradation.* The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals,...Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in pro. * The author of this essay has reason for believing himself to be the first person who brought... | |
 | Daniel Rees - 1892 - 80 sayfa
...look at nature intelligently. We proceed to show, briefly, how Mill dealt with the materials at hand. "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... | |
 | Henry Clay Sheldon - 1894 - 460 sayfa
...contended for the utilitarian, or hedonist, theory. The latter says, in exposition of the theory : " The creed which accepts, as the foundation of morals,...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness."2 He remarks further: "To think of an object as desirable and to think of it as pleasant... | |
 | 1894 - 650 sayfa
...Mill declares that the foundation of morals is in the principle of greatest happiness, which means that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, and wrong if they tend to produce pain. With each the first question is, whence is the ideal ? Mill... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1895 - 146 sayfa
...by doing so they can hope to contribute anything towards rescuing it from this utter degradation l. 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 un. nappiness, pain and the privation... | |
 | John Watson - 1895 - 280 sayfa
...inherent in themselves, or as means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain." Hence actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. The happiness which is the end of life is not, however, " the agent's own greatest happiness, but the... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - 1895 - 400 sayfa
...becomes moral by rationalising as to the pleasurable. The basis of the theory has been stated 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,'—... | |
 | William Henry Fairbrother - 1896 - 228 sayfa
...pleasure.3 1 Proleg. § 154. 2 Ibid. § 156. 3 Cf. Mill's Utilitarianism, ch. 2. "The creed which accepts i the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest...that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promol happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happines: By happiness is intended pleasure,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1897 - 416 sayfa
...But as a name for one single opinion, not a set of opinions — to denote the recognition of utilThe creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility,...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 De Witt Hyde - 1897 - 364 sayfa
...single aspect of conduct as identical with the concrete whole. Mill states the position as follows : "Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...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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The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. 
