 | 1890 - 72 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,...Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in pro. * The author of this essay has reason for believing himself to be the first person who brought... | |
 | Daniel Rees - 1892 - 80 pagine
...look at nature intelligently. We proceed to show, briefly, how Mill dealt with the materials at hand. "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... | |
 | Benjamin Chapman Burt - 1892 - 348 pagine
...the wrong, — provide us with really practical precepts. Such a test is to be found in the principle that actions are right in proportion as they tend to produce happiness or pleasure, and absence of pain ; and wrong, as they tend to produce the reverse. This is the so-called... | |
 | Henry Clay Sheldon - 1894 - 460 pagine
...contended for the utilitarian, or hedonist, theory. The latter says, in exposition of the theory : " 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."2 He remarks further: "To... | |
 | William Henry Fairbrother - 1896 - 228 pagine
...pleasure.3 1 Proleg. § 154. 2 Ibid. § 156. 3 Cf. Mill's Utilitarianism, ch. 2. "The creed which accepts i the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest...that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promol happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happines: By happiness is intended pleasure,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1897 - 416 pagine
...But as a name for one single opinion, not a set of opinions — to denote the recognition of utilThe creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility,...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... | |
 | Henry Rutgers Marshall - 1898 - 606 pagine
...Utilitarianism " : " 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." The rule that is deduced... | |
 | Henry Rutgers Marshall - 1898 - 680 pagine
...Utilitarianism. John Stuart Mill thus expresses the doctrine in his famous essay on " Utilitarianism " : " 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,... | |
 | James Joseph Fox - 1899 - 368 pagine
...doctrine on the fundamental problem of moral science, which is the end and criterion of conduct. " 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... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1899 - 392 pagine
...he is to be classed among Intuitionalists. Mr. John Stuart Mill defines Utilitarianism as follows : "The " creed which accepts as the foundation of morals...Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in pro' ' portion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to "produce the reverse of happiness.... | |
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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... 
