 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. By happiness is intended...  Utilitarianism - Сторінка 10автори: John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 120 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | 1863 - 972 стор.
...actions are right in proportion 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 unhappiuess, pain, and the privation of pleasure " (p. 10). "According to the greatest happiness principle,... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1864 - 502 стор.
...actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure,...unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure." Referring to some supplementary explanations, he adds : — " But these do not affect the theory of... | |
 | William McCombie - 1864 - 178 стор.
...right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong in proportion 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 of pleasure. The "theory of life on which this theory of morality... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1865 - 666 стор.
...defined as meaning " tendency to happiness," is the standard of morality. " By happiness," he says, " is intended pleasure and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure." " Pleasure and the freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends, and all desirable things... | |
 | 1867 - 510 стор.
...actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness ; wrong, as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure,...unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure." But, notwithstanding these postulata, we find Mr. Mill thus expressing himself in another place : "... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1868 - 904 стор.
...actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure,...unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure. The things included under pleasure and pain mav require farther explanation ; but this does not aflect... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1868 - 902 стор.
...actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure,...of pain ; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation ui' pleasure. The things included under pleasure and pain mav require farther explanation ; but this... | |
 | 1868 - 612 стор.
...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiuess. By happiness is intendedpleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure. (Utilitarianism, p. 9.) (2) It would be absurd that while, in estimating ail other things, quality... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1869 - 364 стор.
...actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure,...unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure. The things included under pleasure and pain may require farther explanation ; but this does not affect... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1869 - 348 стор.
...actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure,...unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure. The things included under pleasure and pain may require farther explanation ; but this does not affect... | |
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