...tendency to produce physical good; moral evil is evil only by its tendency to producer physical evil." " Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." Here are several important defects in utilitarianism as a system of morality. First of all, morality...

...of right and wrong, on which the ancient Stoic founded morality. Still more explicitly, this creed holds "that actions are right, in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, that is, pleasure and the absence of pain ; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness,...

...of right and wrong, on which the ancient Stoic founded morality. Still more explicitly, this creed holds " that actions are right, in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, that IN pleasure and the absence of pain; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness, that...

...The creed which accepts, as the foundation of morals, utility, or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they...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...

...morality which find expression in the conscience are the generalizations of reason. Utilitarians hold " that actions are right in proportion as they tend...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." l The enjoyment of pleasure and the negation of pain intended by happiness, has reference, however,...

...and painful experience characteristic of our Feelings. The Ethical Theory may be summarized thus: ' Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...happiness, wrong 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,'—Eudaemonism...

...According to the latter, right and wrong are questions of observation and experience, actions " being right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness,...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." There is no room here for the recognition of any original quality iu actions apart from their consequences,...

...The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By * The author of this essay has reason for believing himself to be the first person who brought the...

...creed which accepts, as the foundation of morals, utilit} r , or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain arid the privation...

...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...