 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.  Practical Idealism - Página 227de William De Witt Hyde - 1897 - 335 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - 532 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure. To give a clear view of the moral standard set up by the theory, much more requires to be said ; in... | |
 | 1863 - 972 páginas
...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...is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain ; by unhappiuess, pain, and the privation of pleasure " (p. 10). "According to the greatest happiness principle,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 120 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure. To give a clear view of the moral standard set up by the theory, much more requires to be said ; in... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1864 - 502 páginas
...or what Mr. Mill means by it. The only explanation which he has given is that, " Utility holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." There is nothing new in this, and nobody ever disputed it, but there is not much explanation in this.... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 108 páginas
...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 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1864 - 486 páginas
...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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