 | John Llewelyn Davies - 1873 - 376 sayfa
...Utilitarians hold, in Mr. Mill's words, 'that actions are right in proportion as they tend to produce happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse...unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.' Professor Grote admits that some kind of happiness is the end of all action, that ' the happiness of... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - 1874 - 330 sayfa
...these words. "The creed which accepts as the foundation of Morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion...the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the prevention of pleasure... Supplementary explanations do not affect the theory of life, on which this... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - 1874 - 348 sayfa
...these words. "The creed. which accepts as the foundation of Morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion...absence of pain; >• by unhappiness, pain, and the prevention of pleasure../ Supplementary explanations do not affect the theory of life, on which this... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - 1874 - 328 sayfa
...and painful experience characteristic of our Feelings. The Ethical Theory may be summarized thus : ' Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...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 Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1876 - 532 sayfa
...reference to man. ' The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, utility or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions are right in proportion...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.'—Utilitarianism, pp. 0-10. desire. I cannot look forward to a time when no one will wear... | |
 | 1885 - 672 sayfa
...ultimate good ; 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 primd facie bound up with the doctrine that all desires are desires of pleasure. It is worthy... | |
 | 1877 - 398 sayfa
...tendency to produce physical good; moral evil is evil only by its tendency to producer physical evil." " Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." Here are several important defects in utilitarianism as a system of morality. First of all, morality... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1877 - 906 sayfa
...of right and wrong, on which the ancient Stoic founded morality. Still more explicitly, this creed holds "that actions are right, in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, that is, pleasure and the absence of pain ; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness,... | |
 | 1877 - 824 sayfa
...of right and wrong, on which the ancient Stoic founded morality. Still more explicitly, this creed holds " that actions are right, in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, that IN pleasure and the absence of pain; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness, that... | |
 | Charles Porterfield Krauth - 1878 - 1082 sayfa
...desired."— CFV " The creed which accepts, as the foundation of morals, utility, or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions are right in proportion...unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure." — ,TS Mill.* UTILIZE, apply to a use; render useful. Hence, Utilization. — Ingleby,5 Herbert Spencer.6... | |
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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. 
