...Wünschenswerte, weil es allein gewünscht wird, denn die utilitaristische Ethik beruht wesentlich darauf, „ that pleasure, and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends" .537 Dagegen scheint jedoch die Tatsache zu sprechen, daß die Menschen noch nach etwas anderem als...

...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...

...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...utilitarian as in any other scheme) are desirable either for pleasure inherent in themselves or as means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain....

...standard set up by the theory, much more requires to be said. . . . But these supplementary explanations do not affect the theory of life on which this theory...from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. (Mill [1863] 1979, 7) However, Mill's version of hedonism makes an important departure from the version...

...not it is true, as Mill claims in that same rich paragraph, that 'these supplementary explanations do not affect the theory of life on which this theory...freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends' This is part of what I attempt here. I believe that Mill was right to distinguish different qualities...

...central to utility as a moral standard, he immediately emphasized that "these supplementary explanations do not affect the theory of life on which this theory...from pain, are the only things desirable as ends" (Mill 1863, 10). Mill criticized Bentham's abstract utilitarianism striving, as it did, for an increase...

...standard set up by the theory, much more requires to be said. . . . But these supplementary explanations do not affect the theory of life on which this theory...namely, that pleasure, and freedom from pain, are the oiJy thmgs desirable as ends. (Mill [1S63| 1979,7) However, Mill's version of hedonism makes an important...

..."privation of pleasure." The philosophical basis or ground of the doctrine is the "theory of life" that "pleasure, and freedom from pain, are the only...things desirable as ends; and that all desirable things . . . are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as means to the promotion of...

...utility principle, according to Gray, is an axiological principle defining the end of human conduct, namely 'that pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends', not a moral axiom that we maximize happiness.29 The individuality of self-development, which Mill praises...

...happiness can be calculated. now at the value-theoretical presupposition of such a calculation. the idea that "pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends" (Mill t979 [t86t]. chap. 2).1 Not least. utilitarianism has been accused of not providing a satisfactory...