 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.  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Side 22redigert av - 1871Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - 532 sider
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, utility or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.' — Utilitafianism, pp. 0-10. * The exception of course being domestic animals, which may be injured... | |
 | 1861 - 882 sider
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...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... | |
 | 1863 - 972 sider
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, utilitv. or the greatest happiness principle; holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 120 sider
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the * The author of this essay has reason for believing himself to be the first person who brought the... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 406 sider
...creed which accepts, as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...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... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1864 - 502 sider
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 108 sider
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the * The author of this essay has reason for believing himself to be the first person who brought the... | |
 | William McCombie - 1864 - 178 sider
...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 in proportion as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure,... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1864 - 486 sider
...explanation which he has given is that, " Utility holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend te promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." There is nothing newjn this, and nobody ever dispute3Tt7^ut there is not much explanation in this.... | |
 | 1879 - 736 sider
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...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... | |
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