 Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.  Handbook of Moral Philosophy - الصفحة 129بواسطة Henry Calderwood - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 277عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | 1795 - عدد الصفحات: 612
...it : « Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two fovereign mafters, fa;a and ffeaj'urc. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we (hail do. On the one hand ihr ftandard of right and wrong, on the other... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 532
...inte're't.' — Helve'tius De V Esprit, discours ii , ' Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. . . . The principle of utility recognises this subjection,... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 378
...Principles of Morals and Legislation," he maintains that "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand, the standard of right and wrong, on the... | |
 | Thomas Browne Browne - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 274
...the Principles of Morals and Legislation" thus: — " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do." * It cannot fail to strike every reader of common intelligence,... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 334
...LEGISLATION. CHAPTER I. Or THE PRINCIPLE OP UTILITY. UATDEE has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other... | |
 | John Taylor - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 258
...disgust.—Priestley. Mankind governed by Pain and Pleasure.—Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand, the standard of right and wrong; on the... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 478
...4 DLXIX. Mankind governed by Pain and Pleasure. — Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...may be learned by two characteristic passages: — " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand, the standard of right and wrong; on the... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...— " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. Jt is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. Un the one hand, the standard of right and wroii^; on the... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 376
...theory, also, as the basis of moral obligation, may be learned by two characteristic passages : — "Nature has placed mankind under the government of...is for them alone to point out what we ought to do. as well as to determine what wo shall do. On the one hand, the standard of right and wrong ; on the... | |
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