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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. "
The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art - Page 30
1871
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History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne, Volume 1

William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - 532 pages
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, utility or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.' — Utilitafianism, pp. 0-10. * The exception of course being domestic animals, which may be injured...
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Fraser's Magazine, Volume 64

1861 - 882 pages
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

1863 - 972 pages
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, utilitv. or the greatest happiness principle; holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain ; by unhappiuess, pain, and the privation...
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Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 120 pages
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the * The author of this essay has reason for believing himself to be the first person who brought the...
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Utilitarianism Explained and Exemplified in Moral and Political Government. ...

Charles Tennant - 1864 - 502 pages
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation...
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Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and ..., Volume 3

John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 406 pages
...creed which accepts, as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain and the privation...
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Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 108 pages
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the * The author of this essay has reason for believing himself to be the first person who brought the...
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Modern Civilisation in Relation to Christianity: A Series of Essays

William McCombie - 1864 - 186 pages
...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 in proportion as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure,...
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Utilitarianism Explained and Exemplified in Moral and Political Government

Charles Tennant - 1864 - 486 pages
...explanation which he has given is that, " Utility holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend te promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." There is nothing newjn this, and nobody ever dispute3Tt7^ut there is not much explanation in this....
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 36

1879 - 736 pages
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation...
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