 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
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1108 pages
...utility or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions ore right in proportion as they (end to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.1 If it be observed, as a fact, that virtue is often desired for its own sake, the explanation... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - Apologetics - 1883 - 350 pages
...wrote, "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... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1883 - 586 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.' If it be observed, as a fact, that virtue is often desired for its own sake, the explanation is: 'We... | |
 | Philosophy - 1885 - 660 pages
...good ; while, on the other hand, the " greatest-happiness principle" denned as " the creed which holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness," is not primA facie bound up with the doctrine that all desires are desires of pleasure. It is worthy... | |
 | James Martineau - Ethics - 1885 - 560 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~~-j the absence of pain : by unhappiness. pain, and the privation... | |
 | Philosophy - 1885 - 684 pages
...good; while, on the other hand, the "greatest-happiness principle" denned as "the creed which holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness," is not primdfatie bound up with the doctrine that all desires are desires of pleasure. It is worthy... | |
 | Robert Watts - Apologetics - 1888 - 440 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... | |
 | Joseph Rickaby - Ethics - 1888 - 396 pages
...object and end of life is pleasure : which is the position laid down in so many words by Mill (1. c.), that " actions are right in proportion' as they tend to promote happiness ;" and " by happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain." If Hedonism were sound doctrine,... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - Logic - 1890 - 346 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... | |
 | Paul Carus - Ethics - 1890 - 126 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, ard the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation... | |
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