 | Charles George Herbermann - 1913 - عدد الصفحات: 882
...morals, utility or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions are right in proportion ¡us 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 of... | |
 | Charles George Herbermann - 1913 - عدد الصفحات: 910
...morals, utility or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as Ihey 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 unhappineas, pain and the privation of... | |
 | Thomas Verner Moore - 1915 - عدد الصفحات: 184
...creed which accepts, as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and 1 Autobiography, 1873, Ch. ii, p. 43. 2 The chief sources for... | |
 | Mary Whiton Calkins - 1918 - عدد الصفحات: 256
...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 Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers - 1919 - عدد الصفحات: 138
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...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 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds 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... | |
 | W. Wesley McDonald - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...utilitarian creed is based on the principle of utility, or the "Greatest Happiness Principle," which "holds 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... | |
 | Maureen Ramsay - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 292
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, utility, or the greatest Happiness Principle, holds 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 unhappmess, pain and the privation of... | |
 | Nicholas Capaldi - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 472
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds 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... | |
 | Robert W. McGee - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 334
...creed which accepts as the foundation of morals "utility" or the "greatest happiness principle" holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend...happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.22 Henry Sidgwick, another English utilitarian, gives a more precise definition: By Utilitarianism... | |
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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. 
