| Mary Whiton Calkins - 1918 - 256 ˹éÒ
...paragraphs X. and II.) Similarly, to John Stuart Mill, another hedonist, "actions are right [and also good] as they tend to promote happiness . . . wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." ("Utilitarianism," Chap. II., paragraph 2.) To take another example: Westermarck, who is not a hedonist... | |
| George Pitt-Rivers - 1919 - 136 ˹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." J The Theistic writer says " the essence of morality is sacrifice. "§ The utilitarian morality does... | |
| Irwin Edman - 1919 - 480 ˹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... | |
| Joseph Rickaby - 1919 - 404 ˹éÒ
...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,... | |
| Andrew Bailey - 2004 - 362 ˹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... | |
| Maureen Ramsay - 2004 - 292 ˹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 unhappmess, pain and the privation of... | |
| Robert W. McGee - 2003 - 334 ˹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.22 Henry Sidgwick, another English utilitarian, gives a more precise definition: By Utilitarianism... | |
| Gordon Graham - 2004 - 240 ˹éÒ
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle . . . that actions are right in proportion as they tend...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... | |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 1950 - 748 ˹éÒ
...progressives. The criterion for utility, according to the English philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806-73), was that 'actions are right in proportion as they tend...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness", the ideal being the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. In the minds of such Utilitarians... | |
| Bernie Koenig - 2004 - 356 ˹éÒ
...calls the principle of utility the "greatest happiness principle"40 since according to the principle "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." (Mill 347) Happiness is understood in terms of pleasure and the absence of pain. But for Mill, as for... | |
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