 | John Stuart Mill - 1922 - 432 pagine
...what was practically the position / of Bentham. " The creed which accepts as the foundation _ •"/ of morals utility, or the greatest happiness principle,...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... | |
 | George Stuart Fullerton - 1922 - 404 pagine
...think of the doctrine of these men when we hear it uttered. It is in this sense that I shall use it. " The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle," writes Mill, " holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong... | |
 | John Augustus William Haas - 1923 - 340 pagine
...that the theory of utility means nothing else than the rule of pleasure, he frames this definition. "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... | |
 | Arthur Norman Holcombe - 1923 - 522 pagine
...John Stuart Mill, stated it more elaborately in his famous essay on Utilitarianism, published in 1861. "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... | |
 | ARTHUR N. HOLCOMBE - 1923 - 536 pagine
...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...happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the abUtilitarian theory of political justice sence of pain; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of... | |
 | Gustavus Watts Cunningham - 1924 - 506 pagine
...goods of life are to be distinguished. Mill's statement of the theory may be regarded as classic: " 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... | |
 | James Hugh Ryan - 1924 - 426 pagine
...The Ethics of John Stuart Mill. the essence of his creed in the following forceful quotation: " It is the creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, utility or the greatest happiness principle, and holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend... | |
 | Frank Paddock - 1925 - 430 pagine
...What he meant by the greatest happiness is best defined by John Stuart Mill in his ''Utilitarianism" . "The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals....Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness... | |
 | James Seth - 1926 - 260 pagine
...Susceptible," and when we return to chapter ii. for a definition of the " Principle of Utility," we find that "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,... | |
 | Edwin Arthur Burtt - 1928 - 620 pagine
...Mill, the last of the three great champions of Utilitarianism, states its fundamental assumptions thus: 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... | |
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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... 
