 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
 | Gustavus Watts Cunningham - 1924 - 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. . . . Pleasure, and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends; and all desirable things... | |
 | Edwin Arthur Burtt - 1928 - 620 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, and ... all desirable... | |
 | Bina Gupta - 2002 - 294 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... | |
 | Mark Timmons - 2002 - 318 sayfa
...Mill was committed to ethical hedonism as an account of welfare:6 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. . .... | |
 | Ruth F. Chadwick, Doris Schroeder - 2002 - 384 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. (Utilitarianism, p. 9.) This definition, however, was then modified in a number of ways which quite... | |
 | Marcus George Singer - 2002 - 362 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' 1ch. 2, para. 2, Everyman edn., p. 61. And Mill goes on to distinguish from 'this theory of morality'... | |
 | Various - 2002 - 596 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... | |
 | Christopher Enright - 2002 - 612 sayfa
...for taste." 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."39 The aim then, according to the famous maxim of Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) is to obtain... | |
 | Marilyn E. Coors - 2003 - 180 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.2 Mill contests Bentham's quantitative hedonism that ranks all pleasures as equal, and contends... | |
 | N. Allan Moseley - 278 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."" Mill also invoked the name of God to lend support to his philosophy, writing that "God desires above... | |
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