 | Edward John Hamilton - 1902 - 492 sayfa
...opposite of happiness, as the sum of the pains. With these conceptions Mill says, " Actions are right iu proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." In other words, an action is right or wrong according to its fitness to advance or to retard the happiness... | |
 | Arthur Stone Dewing - 1903 - 358 sayfa
...position of Bentham, but yet feels distinctly the influence of the idealistic tendencies of thought. " Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds...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... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach - 1904 - 1358 sayfa
...passing expression in Mr. Gait's <Annals of the Parish.1 His definition of the term is 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, and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain and the privation... | |
 | Angelo Solomon Rappoport - 1904 - 134 sayfa
...that the useful means these, among other things." His definition of Utilitarianism is 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 and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain and the privation... | |
 | 1902 - 396 sayfa
...statements Mill has left of this side of his theory, perhaps the following is best for our purposes: " 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 nnhappiness, pain, and the privation... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1906 - 750 sayfa
...Such confusion of terms cannot affect the real meaning of the moral concepts. It is true that he who holds that " actions are right in proportion as they...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness," 8 may, by a merely intellectual process, pass judgment on the moral character of particular acts ;... | |
 | Hastings Rashdall - 1907 - 344 sayfa
...retains ; 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 prima facie bound up with the doctrine that all desires are desires of pleasure. Professor Sidgwick... | |
 | Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Gustavus Watts Cunningham - 1908 - 734 sayfa
...Susceptible," and when we turn to chapter ii for a definition of the " Principle of Utility," we find that "the creed which accepts as the foundation of morals,...wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness " ; and that " the theory of life on which this theory of morality is grounded " is " that pleasure,... | |
 | Benjamin Rand - 1909 - 832 sayfa
...by doing so they can hope to contribute anything towards rescuing it from this utter degradation.1 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... | |
 | Marion Parris - 1909 - 114 sayfa
...foundation of morals utility, or the greatest happiness principle, holds that all actions are right as they tend to promote happiness, wrong 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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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. 
