...utility" - later also named the "greatest happiness principle" as (Bentham 1789, ch. I, §§ 2-4) . . . that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question . . . The 134 Chapter 4. Bargaining and Justice interest of the community then is, what? - the sum...

...that principle which approves or disapproves of evety action whatsoever, according to the rendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose inrerest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promore or to oppose that happiness'...

...for Bentham, the "prmciple of utility." Bentham writes defimng utility: "By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the principle which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest...

...that ptinciple which approves or disapproves of every action wharsoever, according to the rendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the parry whose inrerest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promore or to oppose...

...outset to give an explicit and determined account of what is meant by it. By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves...other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness. I say of every action whatsoever; and therefore not only of every action of a private individual, but...

...happiness as the presence of pleasure and the absence of pain. He writes that: By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves...other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness. Bentham emphasises that this applies to 'every action whatsoever'. Anything that does not maximise...

...outset to give an explicit and determinate account of what is meant by it. By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves...other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness. I say of every action whatsoever; and therefore not only of every action of a private individual, but...

...Bentham also called 'the principle of utility'. He defines this as follows: By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves...same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose happiness. (Bentham 1962: 34) So, another way to express the principle of utility would be to say that,...

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...Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, p. 12: To Bentham, the principle of utility 'approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever,...happiness of the party whose interest is in question [.:.]'. 93 Kant, Critique of the Potrer of Judgement, p. 68. 94 As Kant puts it, 'beautiful art cannot...