 That principle is a mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person's happiness, supposed equal in degree (with the proper allowance made for kind), is counted for exactly as much as another's. Those conditions heing supplied, Bentham's...  Principles of ethics - Page 41by Herbert Spencer - 1898Full view - About this book
 | John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism - 1867 - 132 pages
...Greatest-Happiness Principle. That principle is a mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person's happiness, supposed equal in degree...for exactly as much as another's. Those conditions heing supplied, Bentham's dictum, ' everybody to count for one, nobody for more than one,' might be... | |
 | Great Britain - 1870 - 688 pages
...follows : " The Greatest- Happiness Principle is a mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person's happiness, supposed equal in degree...kind), is counted for exactly as much as another's. These conditions being supplied, Bentham's dictum, ' everybody to count for oue, nobody for more than... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - History - 1873 - 410 pages
...Greatest-happiness Principle. That principle is a mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person's happiness, supposed equal in degree...much as another's. Those conditions being supplied, Hentham's dictum, " Everybody to count for one, nobody for more than one," might be written under the... | |
 | John Llewelyn Davies - Ethics - 1873 - 376 pages
...follows : ' The GreatestHappiness Principle is a mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person's happiness, supposed equal in degree...kind), is counted for exactly as much as another's. These conditions being supplied, Bentham's dictum, " everybody to count for one, nobody for more than... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - History - 1873 - 408 pages
...Greatest-happiness Principle. That principle is a mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person's happiness, supposed equal in degree...allowance made for kind), is counted for exactly as much aa another's. Those conditions being supplied, Bentham's dictum, " Everybody to count for one, nobody... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - Equality - 1873 - 360 pages
...morality. . . . The greatesthappiness principle ... is a mere form of words without rational signification unless one person's happiness supposed equal in degree (with the proper allowance for kind) is counted for exactly as much as another's. Those conditions being supplied, Bentham's dictum,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - History - 1874 - 404 pages
...without rational signification, unless one person's happiness, supposed equal in degree (with f~ ' the proper allowance made for kind) , is counted for exactly as much as another's. Those conditioQS_being supplied, Bentham's dictum, " Everybody to count for one, nobody for more than one,"... | |
 | An exile from France - Communism - 1876 - 466 pages
...of words, without rational signification, unless one person's happiness, supposed equal in degree, is counted for exactly as much as another's. Those...to count for one, nobody for more than one," might b» written under the principle of utility, as an explanatory commentary. The equal claim of everybody... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1880 - 616 pages
...from Mill. ' The Greatest Happiness Principle is a mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person's happiness, supposed equal in degree...kind), is counted for exactly as much as another's.' Mr. Spencer goes on to maintain that it would be absurd to divide equally " the concrete means to happiness"... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Ethics - 1879 - 312 pages
...mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person's happiness, supposed equal iu degree (with the proper allowance made for kind),...nobody for more than one," might be written under ihe principle of utility as an explanatory commentary" (p. 91.) Now though the meaning of "greatest... | |
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