...left an open question. But these supplementary questions do not affect the theory of life on which the theory of morality is grounded — namely, that pleasure,...promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain." But the search for happiness is often complicated by the presence of alternatives, each of which promises...

...left an open question. But these supplementary questions do not affect the theory of life on which the 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)...

...and pleasure ; and to what extent this is left an open question. But these supplementary explanations do not affect the theory of life on which this theory...promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain." Utilitarianism in England. was not merely a philosophical doctrine during the first third of the igth...

...pleasure. Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends ; and all desirable things are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in...promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain." A more square and uncompromising statement of Epicureanism than this it would be impossible to make....

...and pleasure ; and to what extent this is left an open question. But these supplementary explanations do not affect the theory of life on which this theory...promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain."? The chief effect of the earlier utilitarianism upon political * Philosophy and Political Economy, p....

...they tend to promote happiness, 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, and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends ; and that all desirable...

...and pleasure ; and to what extent this is left an open question. But these supplementary explanations do not affect the theory of life on which this theory...promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain. Now, such a theory of life excites in many minds, and among them in some of the most estimable in feeling...

...privation of pleasure . . . the theory of life on which this theory of morality is grounded . . . (is) namely, that pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends."48 This is the "machine-made" Mill giving expression to his inherited doctrines. Bentham himself...

...intended pleasure, and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness pain, ancT the privation of pleasure '. '. '. the theory of life on which this theory of morality is grounded . . . (is) namely, that pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desir-, able as jmds/148...

...discontented, has a more desirable life than a contented fool, must proceed upon some other theory of life than that " pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends." There is in this statement an unconscious admission of an ideal of human life with other aims than...