Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other... The Quarterly Review - Página 87editado por - 1891Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Jeremy Bentham - 1823 - 326 páginas
...sovereign masters, pain and fypea™e^n pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what pleasure. we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall...standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all... | |
| Jeremy Bentham - 1823 - 332 páginas
...sovereign masters, pain and iwp'rin'a'n pleasure. It is for them atone to point out what Pfeasure. we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall...standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all... | |
| Robert Blakey - 1833 - 378 páginas
...the first paragraphs of his " Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation," he maintains that "Nature has placed mankind under the governance...standard of right and wrong, on the other, the chain of causes and effects are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all... | |
| Jeremy Bentham - 1838 - 334 páginas
...INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS AND LEGISLATION. CHAPTER I. Or THE PRINCIPLE OP UTILITY. UATDEE has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign...standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1891 - 580 páginas
...alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one iiand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the...of cause and effect, are fastened to their throne. 'J Finally, with ; the conviction that he is uttering the most obvious of truisms, Mr. John Morley... | |
| John Taylor - 1839 - 258 páginas
...labour through provocation and disgust.—Priestley. Mankind governed by Pain and Pleasure.—Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign...one hand, the standard of right and wrong; on the otller, the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do,... | |
| Materials - 1846 - 478 páginas
...through provocation and disgust. — Priestley. 4 DLXIX. Mankind governed by Pain and Pleasure. — Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all... | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 364 páginas
...theory, also, as to the basis of moral obligation, may be learned by two characteristic passages: — " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...standard of right and wrong; on the other, the chain of causes and effects are fastened to their throne."- — " Bentham's Introd. of Morals," vol. 1, c. 1.... | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 374 páginas
...may be learned by two characteristic passages : — " Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is...standard of right and wrong ; on the other, the chain of causes and effects are fastened to their throne." — " Bentham's Introd. • of Morals," vol. 1. c.... | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 376 páginas
...and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do. as well as to determine what wo shall do. On the one hand, the standard of right and wrong ; on the other, the chain of causes and effects are fastened to their throne." — " Bentham's Intro 1. of Morals," vol. 1. c. 1.... | |
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