 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 หน้า
..."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.' If it be observed, as a fact, that virtue is often desired for its own sake, the explanation is: 'We... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1883 - 350 หน้า
...he wrote, "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... | |
 | 1885 - 684 หน้า
...ultimate good; while, on the other hand, the "greatest-happiness principle" denned as "the creed which holds that actions are right in proportion as they...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness," is not primdfatie bound up with the doctrine that all desires are desires of pleasure. It is worthy... | |
 | James Martineau - 1885 - 560 หน้า
...'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~~-j the absence of pain : by unhappiness. pain, and the privation... | |
 | 1885 - 660 หน้า
...ultimate good ; while, on the other hand, the " greatest-happiness principle" denned as " the creed which holds that actions are right in proportion as they...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness," is not primA facie bound up with the doctrine that all desires are desires of pleasure. It is worthy... | |
 | Robert Watts - 1888 - 440 หน้า
...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... | |
 | Joseph Rickaby - 1888 - 396 หน้า
...object and end of life is pleasure : which is the position laid down in so many words by Mill (1. c.), that " actions are right in proportion' as they tend to promote happiness ;" and " by happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain." If Hedonism were sound doctrine,... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1890 - 346 หน้า
...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... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1890 - 126 หน้า
...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, ard the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation... | |
 | James Martineau - 1890 - 714 หน้า
...JS Mill, " 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... | |
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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. 
