...morals utility, or the Greatest Happiness principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend...and the privation of pleasure " ( Utilitarianism, p. 9). We are not told whether it is here a question of the happiness of the individual or of universal...

...use the very precise and .definite language of John Stuart Mill, "Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend...by unhappiness pain and the privation of pleasure." l A sentence like this is quite without significance until the terms " pleasure " and "happiness" be...

...morals utility, or the Greatest Happiness principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend...is intended pleasure and the absence of pain ; by unhappiuess pain and the privation of pleasure " ( Utilitarianism, p. 9). We are not told whether it...

...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...

...morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend...unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure. To give a clear view of the moral standard set up by the theory, much more requires to be said; in...

...thought. " Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend...unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure." 7 In the support of this thesis Mill departs considerably from the thoroughly empirical stand-point...

...morals utility, or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend...unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure." Thus this theory, estimating actions according to their true value as nothing but means towards securing...

...the Epicurean flag floating bravely over the whole. He "holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend...by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure. Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends ; and all desirable things are...

...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...by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure. To give a clear idea of the moral theory, much 'more requires to be said : in particular, what things...

...dar.20) — Proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tenil to produce the rcverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and...by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure ..." Vgl. dazu aa 0. p. 11 12, Ober die verschiedene Bewertung verschiedener Freuden (that some kinds...