| Laura J. Snyder - 2010 - 386 pagine
...Mill did begin "Utilitarianism" with a definition that could have been written by Bentham himself: "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... | |
| Jonathan Eric Adler, Catherine Z. Elgin - 2007 - 897 pagine
...John Stuart Mill Understanding and Defending Utilitarianism Chapter II What Utilitarianism Is [. . .] from this carry up our inferences from one testimony...spectators of these distant events. In a word, if we promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended... | |
| Damien François - 2007 - 582 pagine
...share the same principles as "utilitarianism", the doctrine defined by John Stuart Mill as follows: "The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals...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... | |
| Barbara Murphy, Estelle M. Rankin - 2007 - 306 pagine
...http://www.utilitarianism.com/mill2.htm. The following is an excerpt from Chapter 2 entitled "What Utilitarianism Is. " ...The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals,...that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happi224 • Developing... | |
| Michael J. Sandel - 2007 - 428 pagine
...if by doing so they can hope to contribute anything towards rescuing it from this utter degradation. The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals,...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... | |
| Lutz Becker - 2007 - 85 pagine
...könnte. Im Gegensatz dazu sollen Schmerz, Unglück und die Abwesenheit von Lust vermieden werden. „The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals,...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... | |
| B. Jill Carroll - 2007 - 128 pagine
...during Mill's time was "the greatest happiness principle." Mill defines utilitarianism in his book: The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals...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... | |
| Frederic Ewen - 2007 - 589 pagine
...hand the chains of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne.7 Or, as John Stuart Mill put it, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.8 Jeremy Bentham's was a computer... | |
| James R. Hackney - 2007 - 268 pagine
...Utilitarianism.112 Mill's utilitarian rule was that "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness are intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure.""3... | |
| Russ Shafer-Landau - 2007 - 815 pagine
...STUART MILL 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... | |
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