 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.  MacMillan's Magazine - Page 50edited by - 1871Full view - About this book
 | Congregationalism - 1866 - 648 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." l He makes right and wrong '' questions of observation and experience." He denies that there are innate... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1866 - 650 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...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness."1 He makes right and wrong " questions of observation and experience." He denies that there... | |
 | Religion and science - 1867 - 510 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... | |
 | Alexander Bain - Ethics - 1868 - 902 pages
...of General Remarks, he proposes (Chapter II.) to enquire, What Utilitarianism is ? This creed 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... | |
 | Alexander Bain - Ethics - 1868 - 904 pages
...of General Remarks, he proposes (Chapter II.) to enquire, What Utilitarianism is? This creed 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... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1868 - 670 pages
...proceeds to give a very clear definition of what the term Utilitarianism means. This system implies ' that actions ' are right in proportion as they tend...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends ; and all desirable things (which... | |
 | Philosophy - 1868 - 612 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...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiuess. By happiness is intendedpleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1869 - 526 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.' — -Utilitarianism, pp. 0—10. 3 The exception of course being domestic animals, which may be injured... | |
 | Alexander Bain - History - 1869 - 348 pages
...of General Remarks, he proposes (Chapter II.) to enquire, What Utilitarianism is? This creed 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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