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 Caldecott - 1901 - 456 sayfa
...Reason is yoked as a servitor, a guide to where enjoyable Feeling and happy life are to be found. " Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as Ends " 1 was written not by Hobbes but by Mill. And as for desirableness, " the sole evidence it is possible... | |
| Paul Janet, Gabriel Séailles - 1902 - 412 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 of... | |
| Edward John Hamilton - 1902 - 488 sayfa
...misery, which is the opposite of happiness, as the sum of the pains. With these conceptions Mill says, " Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." In other words, an action is right or wrong according to its fitness to advance or to retard the happiness... | |
| Andrew Martin Fairbairn - 1902 - 626 sayfa
...the right as the agreeable, or, to use the very precise and definite language of John Stuart Mill, " Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...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... | |
| Edward John Hamilton - 1902 - 492 sayfa
...opposite of happiness, as the sum of the pains. With these conceptions Mill says, " Actions are right iu proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." In other words, an action is right or wrong according to its fitness to advance or to retard the happiness... | |
| Warner Fite - 1903 - 406 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... | |
| Arthur Stone Dewing - 1903 - 358 sayfa
...influence of the idealistic tendencies of thought. " 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 of... | |
| Frederick Converse Beach - 1904 - 1358 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 De Witt Hyde - 1904 - 308 sayfa
...most approved idealistic guns, yet with the Epicurean flag floating bravely over the whole. He "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... | |
| Angelo Solomon Rappoport - 1904 - 134 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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