...Utilitarians hold, in Mr. Mill's words, 'that actions are right in proportion as they tend to produce happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse...is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain : by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.' Professor Grote admits that some kind of happiness...

...Mill's definition is in these words. "The creed which accepts as the foundation of Morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions...is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the prevention of pleasure... Supplementary explanations do not affect the theory...

...Mill's definition is in these words. "The creed. which accepts as the foundation of Morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions...intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; >• by unhappiness, pain, and the prevention of pleasure../ Supplementary explanations do not affect the theory...

...and painful experience characteristic of our Feelings. The Ethical Theory may be summarized thus : ' Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.' — Mill's Utilitarianism, p. 9. In view of this, the theory is named ' The Happiness Theory,' —...

...without nny special reference to man. ' The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, utility or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions...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...

...ultimate good ; while, on the other hand, the " greatest-happiness principle" defined as "the creed which holds that actions are right in proportion as they...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...

...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...

...of right and wrong, on which the ancient Stoic founded morality. Still more explicitly, this creed holds " that actions are right, in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, that IN pleasure and the absence of pain; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness, that...

...of right and wrong, on which the ancient Stoic founded morality. Still more explicitly, this creed holds "that actions are right, in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, that is, pleasure and the absence of pain ; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness,...

...gain ends generally desired."— CFV " The creed which accepts, as the foundation of morals, utility, or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions...happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure." — ,TS Mill.* UTILIZE, apply to a use; render useful....