 | Edward Everett Hale - 1873 - 772 pagine
...of pain, is the end of action."2 " The creed," says Mr. JS MUI, "which accepts as the .foundation bf Morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness principle,...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... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - 1874 - 348 pagine
...condense the lessons of experience through long ages of mankind. Mr Mill's definition is in these words. "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... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - 1874 - 330 pagine
...condense the lessons of experience through long ages of mankind. Mr Mill's definition is in these words. "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... | |
 | 1877 - 824 pagine
...rapidly carrying philosophy intochaos. As defined elsewhere by the younger Mill, Utilitarianism is " the creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle."* But in a world ?:> full of misery as this one, where life as it is is not worth having and the possibility... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1877 - 828 pagine
...rapidly carrying philosophy into chaos. As defined elsewhere by the younger Mill, Utilitarianism is " the creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle."* But in a world so full of misery as this one, where life as it is is not worth having and the possibility... | |
 | Charles Porterfield Krauth - 1878 - 1082 pagine
...that actions are right because they are useful, "or fitted to gain ends generally desired."— CFV " 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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1879 - 288 pagine
...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 * The author of this... | |
 | Charles Porterfield Krauth - 1881 - 1080 pagine
...ends generally desired."—CFV " The creed which accepts, as the foundation of morals, utilit} r , 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... | |
 | 1881 - 790 pagine
...theory makes utility, or the greatest happiness, the foundation of morals. Actions are right according as they tend to produce happiness, wrong as they tend to produce misery. This theory, however, does not really answer the question as to the ultimate ground of our... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pagine
...the promotion of it the test by which to judge of all human conduct' 'i Here is the formal statement: 'The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals,...the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions ore right in proportion as they (end to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse... | |
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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... 
