 | Edward John Hamilton - Ethics - 1902 - 492 pages
...opposite of happiness, as the sum of the pains. With these conceptions Mill says, " Actions are right iu proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." In other words, an action is right or wrong according to its fitness to advance or to retard the happiness... | |
 | Arthur Stone Dewing - Philosophy, Modern - 1903 - 358 pages
...influence of the idealistic tendencies of thought. " 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 of... | |
 | Warner Fite - Ethics - 1903 - 406 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... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1904 - 1358 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... | |
 | Angelo Solomon Rappoport - Philosophy - 1904 - 134 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... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - Christianity - 1904 - 308 pages
...most approved idealistic guns, yet with the Epicurean flag floating bravely over the whole. He "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... | |
 | United States - 1902 - 396 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 nnhappiness, pain, and the privation... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - Ethics - 1906 - 760 pages
...confusion of terms cannot affect the real meaning of the moral concepts. It is true that he who holds that " actions are right in proportion as they tend...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness," 8 may, by a merely intellectual process, pass judgment on the moral character of particular acts ;... | |
 | Hastings Rashdall - Ethics - 1907 - 344 pages
...; 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 prima facie bound up with the doctrine that all desires are desires of pleasure. Professor Sidgwick... | |
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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. 
