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" By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what... "
Handbook of Moral Philosophy - Page 113
by Henry Calderwood - 1874 - 277 pages
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The Monthly review. New and improved ser, Volume 16

1795 - 612 pages
...\v;rds primus, firlt, is meant that principle which approves or difapproves of every afilón whatfoever, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminilh the happinefs or the party ivhofc interell is in queltion : or, wlut is the fame thing in...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1795 - 614 pages
...principle * of utility is is meant that principle which approves or difapproves of every aftion whatfoevcr, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminifh the happinefs of the party whofe intereft ii in queilion : or, what is the fame thing in other...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1795 - 614 pages
...principle * of utility is is meant that principle which approves or difapproves of every aftion whatfoevcr, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminifh the happinefs of the party whofe intereft ii in queilion : or, what is the fame thing in other...
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History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne, Volume 1

William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - 532 pages
...reason, in darkness instead of light.' — Bentham's Principles of Morals and Legislation, ch. i. ' By the principle of utility is meant that principle...happiness of the party whose interest is in question.' — Ibid. ' Je regarde 1'amour delaire' de nous-memes comme le principe de tout sacrifice morale.'...
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An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, Volume 1

Jeremy Bentham - 1823 - 326 pages
...much efficiency, as a bar to the acceptance, that might otherwise have been given, to this principle. the principle * of utility is meant that principle...action whatsoever, according to the tendency which what. it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question...
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An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, Volume 1

Jeremy Bentham - 1823 - 332 pages
...much efficiency, as a bar to the acceptance, that might otherwise have been given, to this principle. the principle* of utility is meant that principle...action whatsoever, according to the tendency which whalit appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question...
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The Oriental herald and colonial review [ed. by J.S. Buckingham]., Volume 5

James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 816 pages
...Morals and Legislation : — " By the principle of utility," (says the author of that work), " Г maan that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question ; and not only of every action of a private individual, but of every measure of government."1 To make...
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The Oriental Herald, Volume 5

1825 - 788 pages
...Morals and Legislation : — " By the principle of utility," (says the author of that work), " I mean that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question ; and not only of every action of a private individual, but of every measure of government."1 To make...
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The Schoolmaster, and Edinburgh Weekly Magazine, Volumes 1-2

1832 - 952 pages
...philosopher, the sum of whose doctrines we now give in his own words :-— THE PRINCIPLE OF UTILITY. By the principle of utility, is meant that principle...happiness of the party whose interest is in question : or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness. I say of every...
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The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence ...

Jeremy Bentham - 1838 - 334 pages
...at the outset to give an explicit and determinate account of what is meant by it. By the principlef of utility is meant that principle which approves...happiness of the party whose interest is in question : or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness. I say of every...
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