...statements Mill has left of this side of his theory, perhaps the following is best for our purposes: " The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals...is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain ; by nnhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure. To give a clear view of the moral standard set up...

...Such confusion of terms cannot affect the real meaning of the moral concepts. It is true that he who holds that " actions are right in proportion as they...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness," 8 may, by a merely intellectual process, pass judgment on the moral character of particular acts ;...

...retains ; while, on the other hand, the ' greatest-happiness principle ' defined 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. Professor Sidgwick...

...Susceptible," and when we turn to chapter ii for a definition of the " Principle of Utility," we find that "the creed which accepts as the foundation of morals,...wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness " ; and that " the theory of life on which this theory of morality is grounded " is " that pleasure,...

...by doing so they can hope to contribute anything towards rescuing it from this utter degradation.1 The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals,...is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure. To give a clear view of the moral standard set up...

...foundation of morals utility, or the greatest happiness principle, holds that all actions are right as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend...is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness pain, and the privation of pleasure . . . the theory of life on which this theory of morality...

...principle" and in its elucidation points out with equal clearness many things which it is not. "The end which accepts as the foundation of morals utility, or the greatest happiness principle, holds that all actions are right as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse...

...for right action as well. In his essay Mill's first formulation of the creed of utilitarianism is: "that actions are right in proportion as they tend...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness."10 This initial formulation should not be taken out of context as Mill's definitive statement...

...of man as a social being Mill does of course accept Bentham's maxim that actions are to be viewed as "right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness,...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness" (Mill 1861, p. 394). The question then centers on the extent to which this utilitarian maxim is adequate...

...'utilitarianism'. In its classic formulation by the nineteenth-century philosopher John Stuart Mill, it is the view that 'actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to promote the reverse of happiness'.6 The happiness in question is not just one's own happiness but that...