 Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.  Handbook of Moral Philosophy - Page 113by Henry Calderwood - 1874 - 277 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1918 - 718 pages
...and most famous version remains the best to quote.2 Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other... | |
 | Christopher Hamilton - 2003 - 452 pages
...naturally seek pleasure and shun pain. As he put it: Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do ... They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we... | |
 | David Seth Preston - 2003 - 222 pages
...Morals and Legislation, pleasure is good and pain is bad: "Nature has placed mankind under the govemance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is...for them alone to point out what we ought to do..." (Bentham, 19701. Jobn Stuart Mill would update this notion of utilitarianism in the next century. Mill... | |
 | Michel Cabanac - 2003 - 316 pages
...le chapitre XII). 24. Ma traduction de : « Nature has placed mankind under the go vernance of t wo sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do [...] they govern us in ail we do, in ail we say, in ail we... | |
 | Mads Qvortrup - 2003 - 162 pages
...Principles of Morals and Legislation, he wrote that 'nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters; pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we oughtto do' (Bentham 2000: 87, italics added). The Marxists, on their part, rested their theoretical... | |
 | Benjamin R. Barber - 2003 - 242 pages
...Legislation (1780), chap. 1. In Bentham's famous opening, "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. . . . They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all... | |
 | James Steintrager - 2004 - 144 pages
...the most discussed remarks which Bentham ever made : Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other... | |
 | Robert A. Bowie - 2004 - 356 pages
...hedonist (hedone is Greek for 'pleasure'). He said, 'Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.' (Bentham, 1789, Chapter I, I) Bentham believed that all... | |
 | Robert A. Bowie - 2004 - 140 pages
...Human beings seek pleasure and try to avoid pain: TSIature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.' • Bentham was a hedonist in believing that pleasure is... | |
 | Gordon Graham - 2004 - 240 pages
...Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation that 'nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do (Bentham 1789, 1960: 125). Accordingly, the way to construct... | |
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