 | Charles George Herbermann - Catholic Church - 1913 - 882 pages
...morals, utility or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions are right in proportion ¡us they tend to promote happiness, wrong 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... | |
 | Charles George Herbermann - Catholic Church - 1913 - 910 pages
...morals, utility or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as Ihey tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain; by unhappineas, pain and the privation of... | |
 | Thomas Verner Moore - Ethics - 1915 - 184 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 1 Autobiography, 1873, Ch. ii, p. 43. 2 The chief sources for... | |
 | Mary Whiton Calkins - Ethics - 1918 - 256 pages
...paragraphs X. and II.) Similarly, to John Stuart Mill, another hedonist, "actions are right [and also good] as they tend to promote happiness . . . wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." ("Utilitarianism," Chap. II., paragraph 2.) To take another example: Westermarck, who is not a hedonist... | |
 | George Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers - Conscience - 1919 - 138 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." J The Theistic writer says " the essence of morality is sacrifice." § The utilitarian morality does... | |
 | Irwin Edman - Social psychology - 1919 - 480 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... | |
 | W. Wesley McDonald - Political Science - 2004 - 260 pages
...utilitarian creed is based on the principle of utility, or the "Greatest Happiness Principle," which "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... | |
 | Maureen Ramsay - Political Science - 2004 - 292 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 unhappmess, pain and the privation of... | |
 | Nicholas Capaldi - Art - 2004 - 472 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... | |
 | Robert W. McGee - Business & Economics - 2003 - 334 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.22 Henry Sidgwick, another English utilitarian, gives a more precise definition: By Utilitarianism... | |
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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. 
