...for right action as well. In his essay Mill's first formulation of the creed of utilitarianism is: "that actions are right in proportion as they tend...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness."10 This initial formulation should not be taken out of context as Mill's definitive statement...

...of man as a social being Mill does of course accept Bentham's maxim that actions are to be viewed as "right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness,...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness" (Mill 1861, p. 394). The question then centers on the extent to which this utilitarian maxim is adequate...

...writes, "The creed which accepts as the foundation of moral Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to promote the reverse of happiness. "" Thus, right and wrong are measured by the good of happiness. This...

...'utilitarianism'. In its classic formulation by the nineteenth-century philosopher John Stuart Mill, it is the view that 'actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to promote the reverse of happiness'.6 The happiness in question is not just one's own happiness but that...

...answer is John Stuart Mill. [Mill's principle of utility was: "Actions are right in propor231 tion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness."] Because I'm very much a pragmatist. I don't see the world as a series of yellow or green and red lights....

...accept sas the foundation of mora 1s, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that ai. tums are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to product the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence ot paim by unhappmess,...

...1863): 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 and wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the...

...Principle5 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...

..."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." Coming back to our initial moral problem: in terms of getting out of the cave, would it be virtuous...

...from its utility, the end to which it was directed. The utilitarian thesis, expounded by Mill, was that "actions are right in proportion as they tend...wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness The standard is not the agent's own greatest happiness, but the greatest amount of happiness altogether,"...