 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. By happiness is intended...  An Examination of the Utilitarian Philosophy - Sayfa 30John Grote tarafından - 1870 - 362 sayfaTam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | James Seth - 1912 - 404 sayfa
...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 of pleasure.' The ' supplementary explanations ' which require to be added to this definition, he affirms, ' do not affect... | |
 | Fritz Berolzheimer - 1912 - 564 sayfa
...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 of pleasure. . . . Some kinds of pleasure are more desirable than others." 2 "Utilitarianism," chap. 3, pp. 39-51,... | |
 | 1912 - 564 sayfa
...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 of pleasure. . . . Some kinds of pleasure are more desirable than others." 1 "Utilitarianism," chap. 3, pp. 39-51,... | |
 | Thomas Verner Moore - 1915 - 186 sayfa
...happiness. Fortunately, Mill has defined this early in his essay. " By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure." 2 True it is that there are different classes of pleasures, some of which are higher and others lower.... | |
 | Irwin Edman - 1919 - 480 sayfa
...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 of pleasure. To give a clear view of the moral standard set up by the theory, much more requires to be said; in... | |
 | Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad - 1921 - 240 sayfa
...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 of pleasure." " Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends." When we ask the question,... | |
 | George Stuart Fullerton - 1922 - 404 sayfa
...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 of pleasure." This means, he adds, " that pleasure, and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends;... | |
 | John Augustus William Haas - 1923 - 340 sayfa
...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 of pleasure." 11 Mill makes two changes in the doctrine of utilitarianism. First, he distinguishes between pleasures... | |
 | James Hugh Ryan - 1924 - 426 sayfa
...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 of pleasure." The Greeks had founded their pleasure theory on a quantitative basis. Modern Hedonism rejected this viewpoint,... | |
 | Frank Paddock - 1925 - 430 sayfa
...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and l0 the absence of pain, by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure." It does not mean voluptuous living or even seeking after transitory pleasures. To contend that the... | |
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