 | Hastings Rashdall - 1907 - 344 หน้า
...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... | |
 | Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Gustavus Watts Cunningham - 1908 - 734 หน้า
...find that "the creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion...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,... | |
 | Benjamin Rand - 1909 - 832 หน้า
...degradation.1 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 produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation... | |
 | Marion Parris - 1909 - 114 หน้า
...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 of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness pain, and the privation... | |
 | James Johnston Shaw - 1910 - 518 หน้า
...The creed," says Mill, " which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility or the Greatest Happiness principle, holds that actions are right in proportion...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... | |
 | Walter McDonald - 1910 - 312 หน้า
...Utilitarians and Catholics.— Mr. John Stuart Milli defines Utilitarianism as " the 'creed which . . . holds that actions are right in proportion as they...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." And he goes on to say that " by happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness,... | |
 | Singleton Waters Davis - 1910 - 170 หน้า
...the discussion in Chapter II by the inquiry, "What Utilitarianism Is?" He defines the principle as that " actions are right in proportion as they tend...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." And he means by happiness, pleasure and the absence of pain ; and by unhappiness, pain and the deprivation... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - 1911 - 328 หน้า
...the most approved idealistic guns, yet with the Epicurean flag floating bravely over the whole. He "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... | |
 | Robert John Wardell - 1911 - 222 หน้า
...into conformity with this universal good-will. •(p) James Stuart Mill (1806-73, see also § 43) held that- actions are right in proportion as they tend...to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce misery. By EIMU, p. 91. ' happiness ' he meant ' pleasure and absence of pain.' He rated intellectual... | |
 | 1912 - 648 หน้า
...pp. 9 seq.: "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 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. 
