 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.  The British Quarterly Review - Sayfa 156editör: - 1868Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 sayfa
...utility or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions ore right in proportion as they (end to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.1 If it be observed, as a fact, that virtue is often desired for its own sake, the explanation... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1883 - 350 sayfa
...wrote, "which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...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... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 sayfa
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, utility or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.' If it be observed, as a fact, that virtue is often desired for its own sake, the explanation is: 'We... | |
 | James Martineau - 1885 - 560 sayfa
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and~~-j the absence of pain : by unhappiness. pain, and the privation... | |
 | 1885 - 684 sayfa
...good; while, on the other hand, the "greatest-happiness principle" denned as "the creed which holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness," is not primdfatie bound up with the doctrine that all desires are desires of pleasure. It is worthy... | |
 | 1885 - 660 sayfa
...good ; while, on the other hand, the " greatest-happiness principle" denned as " the creed which holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...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. It is worthy... | |
 | Robert Watts - 1888 - 440 sayfa
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, utility, or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...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... | |
 | Joseph Rickaby - 1888 - 396 sayfa
...object and end of life is pleasure : which is the position laid down in so many words by Mill (1. c.), that " actions are right in proportion' as they tend to promote happiness ;" and " by happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain." If Hedonism were sound doctrine,... | |
 | William Fleming - 1890 - 458 sayfa
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, utility, or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...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... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1890 - 346 sayfa
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...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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