...the greatest good for the greatest number was appropriate reform possible. As explained by Bentham: By the principle of utility is meant that principle...happiness of the party whose interest is in question; or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or oppose that happiness. I say of every action...

...Vorbildern folgend - unter anderem von dem britischen Philosophen Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) formuliert: „By the principle of utility is meant that principle...happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness."1 Das Nutzenprinzip...

...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...

...description of this ethical code is, for Bentham, the "prmciple of utility." Bentham writes defimng utility: "By the principle of utility is meant that principle...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...

...Bentham himself is none other than the principle of utility or 'the grearest happiness principle': 'By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of evety action whatsoever, according to the rendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish...

...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...

...proper therefore at the outset to give an explicit and determinate account of what is meant by it. By the principle of utility is meant that principle...happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness. I say of every action...

...proper therefore at the outset to give an explicit and determinate account of what is meant by it. By the principle of utility is meant that principle...happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness. I say of every action...

...'greatest happiness principle' Bentham also called 'the principle of utility'. He defines this as follows: By the principle of utility is meant that principle...happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose happiness. (Bentham 1962: 34) So,...

...people. Bentham defines happiness as the presence of pleasure and the absence of pain. He writes that: By the principle of utility is meant that principle...happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness. Bentham emphasises...