 | Henry Hughes - 1890 - 392 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." l And he says, " This " (ie, an existence exempt as far as possible from pain, and as rich as possible... | |
 | William Fleming - 1890 - 458 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... | |
 | 1890 - 72 หน้า
...language, and offers, in many caeca, a convenient mode of avoiding tiresome circumlocution. portion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong 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... | |
 | Daniel Rees - 1892 - 80 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... | |
 | Henry Clay Sheldon - 1894 - 462 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...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness."1 He remarks further: "To think of an object as desirable and to think of it as pleasant... | |
 | 1894 - 650 หน้า
...Mill declares that the foundation of morals is in the principle of greatest happiness, which means that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, and wrong if they tend to produce pain. With each the first question is, whence is the ideal ? Mill... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1895 - 146 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 un. nappiness, pain and the privation... | |
 | John Watson - 1895 - 280 หน้า
...inherent in themselves, or as means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain." Hence actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. The happiness which is the end of life is not, however, " the agent's own greatest happiness, but the... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - 1895 - 400 หน้า
...becomes moral by rationalising as to the pleasurable. The basis of the theory has been stated 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,'—... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1897 - 416 หน้า
...utilThe 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... | |
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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. 
