..."which accepts as the .foundation bf Morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they ; tend to...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...

...foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-happiness Principle, holds that actions are rightiu proportion as they tend to. promote happiness, wrong...as they tend to produce the reverse "of happiness. By happiness is intended plea-sure and the absence of pain; bv unhappincss, pain and the privation...

...self-consciousness is a later attainment, by reflection. — P. 168. CHAPTER II. KNOWLEDGE OF MORAL DISTINCTIONS. (UTILITARIAN THEORY.) 1. THE Development theory, which...this, the theory is named ' The Happiness Theory,' — Eudaemonism (from evSai/icwa, happiness), — Hedonism (ijSovr?, pleasure). Of the two designations,...

...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...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; >• by unhappiness, pain, and the prevention...

...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...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the prevention...

...while, on the other hand, the " greatest-happiness principle" defined as "the creed which holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness," is not primd facie bound up with the doctrine that all desires are desires of pleasure. It is worthy...

...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.'—Utilitarianism, pp. 0-10. desire. I cannot look forward to a time when no one will wear...

...tendency to produce physical good; moral evil is evil only by its tendency to producer physical evil." " Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." Here are several important defects in utilitarianism as a system of morality. First of all, morality...

...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...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...

...which find expression in the conscience are the generalizations of reason. Utilitarians hold " that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." l The enjoyment of pleasure and the negation of pain intended by happiness, has reference, however,...