| Laura J. Snyder - 2010 - 386 ˹éÒ
...with a definition that could have been written by Bentham himself: "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... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 2006 - 118 ˹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... | |
| Dan O'Brien - 2006 - 225 ˹éÒ
...implicit consideration of the pleasure or pain experienced by the people affected by a particular action: 'actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness' (Mill, 1998, p. 7). We should not, though, simply be concerned with the immediate pleasure or pain... | |
| Jeff Jordan - 2006 - 240 ˹éÒ
...which mislead individual life.51 This is an odd objection coming from one who argued in Utilitarianism that 'actions are right in proportion as they tend...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness'.52 If the sole criterion of action is the production of happiness, and if forming a belief... | |
| John R. Fitzpatrick - 2006 - 191 ˹éÒ
...turns out to be equivalent to that of Bentham and Austin.49 Thus, if Berger is correct, Mill's 'acts are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to promote the reverse' is best interpreted as something like 'acts are right if they are likely, on balance,... | |
| Damien François - 2007 - 582 ˹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 of... | |
| Robert Audi - 2007 - 160 ˹éÒ
...human suffering. In Mill's words: The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals "utility" . . . 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.9 If one act produces more happiness than... | |
| Jonathan Eric Adler, Catherine Z. Elgin - 2007 - 897 ˹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 of... | |
| Michael J. Sandel - 2007 - 428 ˹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... | |
| Tony Long, Martin Johnson - 2007 - 240 ˹éÒ
...views) and argued forcibly for women's suffrage. He described the 'greatest happiness' principle which: ...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... | |
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