...into conformity with this universal good-will. •(p) James Stuart Mill (1806-73, see also § 43) held that- actions are right in proportion as they tend...to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce misery. By EIMU, p. 91. ' happiness ' he meant ' pleasure and absence of pain.' He rated intellectual...

...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...

...confusion of terrns_ cannot affect the real meaning of the moral concepts. It is true that he who holds that "actions are right in proportion as they tend...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse • of happiness,"3 may, by a merely intellectual process, pass judgment on the moral character of particular...

...affirms, ' do not affect the theory of life on which this theory of morality is grounded — namely, that pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends ; and that all desirable things (which are as numerous in the utilitarian as in any other scheme) are desirable...

...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...

...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals "utility" or the "greatest happiness principle" holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.22 Henry Sidgwick, another English utilitarian, gives a more precise definition: By Utilitarianism...

...for right action as well. In his essay Mill's first formulation of the creed of utilitarianism is: "that actions are right in proportion as they tend...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness."10 This initial formulation should not be taken out of context as Mill's definitive statement...

...calls the principle of utility the "greatest happiness principle"40 since according to the principle "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." (Mill 347) Happiness is understood in terms of pleasure and the absence of pain. But for Mill, as for...

...of man as a social being Mill does of course accept Bentham's maxim that actions are to be viewed as "right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness,...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness" (Mill 1861, p. 394). The question then centers on the extent to which this utilitarian maxim is adequate...

...creed which accepts as the foundation of moral Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to promote the reverse of happiness. "" Thus, right and wrong are measured by the good of happiness. This...