 | 1861 - 882 pagine
...language, and offers, in many cases, a convenient mode of avoiding tiresome circumlocution. 394 395 affect the theory of life on which this theory of...promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain. Now, such a theory of life excites in many minds, and among them in some of the most estimable in feeling... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 120 pagine
...and pleasure ; and to what extent this is left an open question. But these supplementary explanations do not affect the theory of life on which this theory...promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain. Now, such a theory of life excites in many minds, and among them in some of the most estimable in feeling... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 108 pagine
...and pleasure ; and to what extent this is left an open question. But these supplementary explanations do not affect the theory of life on which this theory...promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain. Now, such a theory of life excites in many minds, and among them in some of the most estimable in feeling... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 406 pagine
...and pleasure, and to what extent this is left an open question. But these supplementary explanations do not affect the theory of life on which this theory...pain, are the only things desirable as ends ; and that alt desirable things (which are ns numerous in the utilitarian as in any other scheme) are desirable... | |
 | William McCombie - 1864 - 178 pagine
...desirable^Bds > and that all desirable things (which are numerous in the utilitarian as in anyTther scheme,) are desirable, either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain." '• According to the Greatest Happiness... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1865 - 666 pagine
...privation of pleasure." " Pleasure and the freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends, and all desirable things (which are as numerous in the...promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain." As to the proof of the principle of "utility," Mr. Mill remarks that " questions of ultimate ends do... | |
 | 1879 - 736 pagine
...and pleasure ; and to what extent this is left an open question. But these supplementary explanations do not affect the theory of life on which this theory...things (which are as numerous in the utilitarian as any other scheme) are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as means to the... | |
 | 1867 - 510 pagine
...and are false principles. Let us now have as plainly before our minds the claims of Utilitarianism. " The theory of life on which this theory of morality is grounded " is as follows, namely, " that pleasure, and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1868 - 670 pagine
...proportion as they tend to promote happiness, ' wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends ; and all desirable things (which are as numerous in the utilitarian as in any other scheme) are desirable... | |
 | John Grote - 1870 - 396 pagine
...of pain: by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.' The utilitarian theory of life is, ' that pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things...promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.' The utilitarian TS\OS, or the ultimate end of life, is described by Mr Mill in the second passage which... | |
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... pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends; and that all desirable things (which are as numerous in the utilitarian as in any other scheme) are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as means to the... 
