 | 1861 - 882 páginas
...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...unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure. To give a clear view of the moral standard set up by the theory, much more requires to be said ; in... | |
 | 1863 - 972 páginas
...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...is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain ; by unhappiuess, pain, and the privation of pleasure " (p. 10). "According to the greatest happiness principle,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 120 páginas
...in the language, and offers, in many cases, a convenient mode of avoiding tiresome circumlocution. reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure,...unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure. To give a clear view of the moral standard set up by the theory, much more requires to be said ; in... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 406 páginas
...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...by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure. To give a clear view of the moral standard set up by the theory, much more requires to be said ; in... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1864 - 486 páginas
...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...unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure." Referring to some supplementary explanations, he adds :—" But these do not affect the theory of life... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 108 páginas
...in the language, and offers, in many cases, a convenient mode of avoidbij tiresome circumlocution. reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure,...unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure. To give a clear view of the moral standard set up by the theory, much more requires to be said; in... | |
 | William McCombie - 1864 - 178 páginas
...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....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 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1879 - 736 páginas
...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...unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure. To give a clear view of the moral standard set up by the theory, much more requires to be said ; in... | |
 | 1867 - 510 páginas
...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...unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure." But, notwithstanding these postulata, we find Mr. Mill thus expressing himself in another place : "... | |
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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... 
