 | Abdulhay Sayed - 2004 - 518 sayfa
...Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, M CM VII): "By the principle of utility is meant that principle...happiness of the party whose interest is in question; or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness." (Ch. I, II); "By... | |
 | Nicholas P. Guehlstorf - 2004 - 216 sayfa
...calculating which option yields the greatest amount of human happiness or pleasure. Bentham famously writes: By the principle of utility is meant that principle...happiness of the party whose interest is in question (Bentham, 1967, 126). As a political system, utilitarianism argues that government must determine the... | |
 | Nicholas Deakin, Catherine Jones Finer, Bob Matthews - 2004 - 338 sayfa
...at the outset to give an explicit and determinate account of what is meant by it. By the principle2 of utility is meant that principle which approves...happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness. I say of every action... | |
 | Charles Robert McCann - 2004 - 258 sayfa
...moral standards.2 With these standards thus established, Bentham defines the principle of utility as "that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question," with utility itself being that property in any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage,... | |
 | Elizabeth Burns, Stephen Law - 2004 - 322 sayfa
...principle of ethics, which is known as the 'principle of utility' or 'greatest happiness principle', is 'that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question' (Bentham 1962: 34). Or again, 'that principle which states the greatest happiness of all those whose... | |
 | Henry R. West - 2004 - 240 sayfa
...utility." The principle of utility, which he also calls the "greatest happiness principle," is the principle "which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question. ... I say of every action whatsoever; and therefore not only of every action of a private individual,... | |
 | Bernie Koenig - 2004 - 356 sayfa
...it."3' But the main part of his work is to explain and analyze the principle of utility, which is the "principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question..." (Bentham 3l9) The principle of utility is all about maximizing pleasure and avoiding pain. The title... | |
 | James Steintrager - 2004 - 144 sayfa
...give 'an explicit and determinate account' of the foundations of his system. The principle of utility 'approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever,...happiness of the party whose interest is in question', and happiness is to be measured in hedonic terms : 'a thing is said to promote the interest, or to... | |
 | H. Victor Condä - 2004 - 440 sayfa
...principle that approves or disapproves of every human action whatsoever, according to the tendency that it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question; or to promote or oppose that happiness. This principle was espoused by philosophers such as Jeremy... | |
 | Michael Palmer - 2005 - 200 sayfa
...word 'utility' referring to the tendency of something to produce happiness, not to its usefulness. By the principle of utility is meant that principle...happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness. I say of every action... | |
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By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what... 
