 | Singleton Waters Davis - 1910 - 170 sayfa
...the discussion in Chapter II by the inquiry, "What Utilitarianism Is?" He defines the principle as that " actions are right in proportion as they tend...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." And he means by happiness, pleasure and the absence of pain ; and by unhappiness, pain and the deprivation... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - 1911 - 328 sayfa
...the most approved idealistic guns, yet with the Epicurean flag floating bravely over the whole. He "holds that actions are right in proportion as they...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... | |
 | Robert John Wardell - 1911 - 222 sayfa
...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... | |
 | 1912 - 648 sayfa
...lead in practice to the abandon1 "Utilitarianism," chap. 2 ("What Utilitarianism is"), pp. 9 seq.: "The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals...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... | |
 | James Seth - 1912 - 404 sayfa
...giving effect to their mandates.' 1 Yet Mill defines- Utilitarianism in Bentham's familiar terms. ' The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals,...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... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1912 - 748 sayfa
...Such confusion of terms cannot affect the real meaning of the moral concepts. It is true that he who holds that "actions are right in proportion as they...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... | |
 | Colin Farrelly - 2004 - 208 sayfa
...(1748-1832) and John Stuart Mill (1806-1873). Utilitarians defend the 'greatest happiness principle' which holds that actions are right in proportion as they...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. This is the guiding principle of utilitarianism. But utilitarians endorse different accounts of what... | |
 | Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 1950 - 748 sayfa
...progressives. The criterion for utility, according to the English philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806-73), was that 'actions are right in proportion as they tend...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness", the ideal being the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. In the minds of such Utilitarians... | |
 | Henry R. West - 2004 - 240 sayfa
...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... | |
 | Bernie Koenig - 2004 - 356 sayfa
...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... | |
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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. 
