...that the useful means these, among other things." His definition of Utilitarianism is as follows : " 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...

...statements Mill has left of this side of his theory, perhaps the following is best for our purposes: " 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 nnhappiness, pain, and the privation...

...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...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness," 8 may, by a merely intellectual process, pass judgment on the moral character of particular acts ;...

...retains ; while, on the other hand, the ' greatest-happiness principle ' defined as ' the creed which holds that actions are right in proportion as they...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. Professor Sidgwick...

...Susceptible," and when we turn to chapter ii for a definition of the " Principle of Utility," we find that "the creed which accepts as the foundation of morals,...wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness " ; and that " the theory of life on which this theory of morality is grounded " is " that pleasure,...

...by doing so they can hope to contribute anything towards rescuing it from this utter degradation.1 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...

...foundation of morals utility, or the greatest happiness principle, holds that all actions are right as they tend to promote happiness, wrong 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...

...principle" and in its elucidation points out with equal clearness many things which it is not. "The end which accepts as the foundation of morals utility, or the greatest happiness principle, holds that all actions are right as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse...

...knowledge and culture so far above the narrowness of a philosophical sect. " The creed," says Mill, " which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility...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...

...Utilitarians and Catholics.— Mr. John Stuart Milli defines Utilitarianism as " the 'creed which . . . holds that actions are right in proportion as they...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." And he goes on to say that " by happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness,...