 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...  The North American Review - Page 250edited by - 1865Full view - About this book
 | 1861 - 882 pages
...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 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 - Decision making - 1863 - 120 pages
...many cases, a convenient mode of avoiding tiresome circumlocution. reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain ; 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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - History - 1864 - 406 pages
...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 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 - 502 pages
...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...unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure." Referring to some supplementary explanations, he adds : — " But these do not affect the theory of... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism - 1864 - 108 pages
...many cases, a convenient mode of avoidbij tiresome circumlocution. reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; 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... | |
 | 1879 - 736 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Religion and science - 1867 - 510 pages
...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 unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure." But, notwithstanding these postulata, we find Mr. Mill thus expressing himself in another place : "... | |
 | Alexander Bain - Ethics - 1868 - 904 pages
...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 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 - Ethics - 1868 - 902 pages
...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 unhappiness, pain, and the privation ui' pleasure. The things included under pleasure and pain mav require farther explanation ; but this... | |
 | Philosophy - 1868 - 612 pages
...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... | |
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