 | English periodicals - 1871 - 528 pages
...are weak enough to think they are acquainted with the whole system of things." Having now endeavoured to remove any feelings of pain and distrust awakened...individual — they have never been able, in spite of the endeavours of their noblest advocates (especially Mr. John Stuart Mill), to purge entirely from their... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1871 - 542 pages
...and utilitarian moralists. The intuitive school have always insisted that the highest moral yirtues could never be derived from mere utility, or from...individual — they have never been, able, in spite of the endeavours of their noblest advocates (especially Mr. John Stuart Mill), to purge entirely from their... | |
 | Theology - 1872 - 832 pages
...Mill, " 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 uuhappiness, pain and the privation... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - Ethics - 1872 - 356 pages
...and painful experience characteristic of our Feelings. The Ethical Theory may be summarized thus : ' Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.' — Mill's Utilitarianism, p. 9. In view of this, the theory is named ' The Happiness Theory,' —... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Liberalism (Religion) - 1873 - 772 pages
...MUI, "which accepts as the .foundation bf 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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - History - 1873 - 408 pages
...foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-happiness Principle, holds that actions are rightiu proportion as they tend to. promote happiness, wrong...as they tend to produce the reverse "of happiness. By happiness is intended plea-sure and the absence of pain; bv unhappincss, pain and the privation... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - Philosophy - 1874 - 348 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 prevention... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - Philosophy - 1874 - 330 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 prevention... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - Ethics - 1874 - 328 pages
...and painful experience characteristic of our Feelings. The Ethical Theory may be summarized thus : ' Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.' — Mill's Utilitarianism, p. 9. In view of this, the theory is named ' The Happiness Theory,' —... | |
 | Philosophy - 1885 - 672 pages
...good ; while, on the other hand, the " greatest-happiness principle" defined 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 primd facie bound up with the doctrine that all desires are desires of pleasure. It is worthy... | |
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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. 
