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. Handbook of Moral Philosophy - Page 112by Henry Calderwood - 1874 - 277 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - 532 pages
...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...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.' — Utilitafianism, pp. 0-10. * The exception of course being domestic animals, which may be injured... | |
| 1871 - 808 pages
...school, on the contrary, have maintained that we have no proof of such an intuitional sense ; that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. But since they have never assigned any other reason for the desire to produce general happiness than... | |
| 1861 - 882 pages
...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...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... | |
| 1863 - 972 pages
...which accepts as the foundation of morals, utilitv. or the greatest happiness principle; holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...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... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 120 pages
...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 * The author of this essay has reason for believing himself to be the first person who brought the... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 406 pages
...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...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... | |
| Charles Tennant - 1864 - 486 pages
...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...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... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 108 pages
...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 * The author of this essay has reason for believing himself to be the first person who brought the... | |
| William McCombie - 1864 - 178 pages
...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,... | |
| 1879 - 736 pages
...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...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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