 | Norberto Bobbio - 2005 - 116 ˹éÒ
...The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.44 He interpreted Bentham's 'happiness' as equivalent to pleasure or the absence of pain,... | |
 | Robert B. Talisse - 2005 - 182 ˹éÒ
...Good is pleasure, or the cause of pleasure" (1789,685). 9. Hence Mill's Greatest Happiness Principle: "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness" ( 1861a, 137). 10. Hence Bentham, "The Public Good ought to be the object of the legislator; General... | |
 | American College of Medical Quality - 2005 - 244 ˹éÒ
...John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham advanced the theory of utilitarianism. Essentially, the utility of actions "are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." Unlike Kant's theory, the result of the action (increase in happiness) is the measurement against which... | |
 | Jules Verne - 2005 - 318 ˹éÒ
...to whimsically bring up his utilitarian theories, such as that articulated in Mill's famous apothegm "Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." Since thinking of Jeanne clearly makes Marcel happy, it is the right thing. Verne could also be referring... | |
 | Ian Richards - 2005 - 196 ˹éÒ
...informed citizenry. Central to this perspective is Mill's principle of utility, according to which 'actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness' (p. 7). Many objections can be - and have been - made to utilitarianism, and some of these are particularly... | |
 | Jesper Ryberg, Torbjörn Tännsjö - 2007 - 261 ˹éÒ
...famous and pristine conflations of the positive and negative imperatives: Mill (1979/1861) tells us that "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to promote the reverse of happiness," and that "By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain;... | |
 | Irena Papadopoulos - 2006 - 366 ˹éÒ
...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... | |
 | Chana B. Cox - 2006 - 302 ˹éÒ
...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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 2005 - 978 ˹éÒ
..."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" ( Works 10:210). Carlyle had attacked the doctrine in Sartor Resartus (2.9.142). 139.21. Herschel telescopes:... | |
 | James Garvey - 2006 - 202 ˹éÒ
...Certainly Mill's characterization of utilitarianism fits the mould: '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. . .' As Bentham argued before him, then,... | |
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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. 
