...Intuitional scheme. UTILITARIAN, OB HAPPINESS THEORY. — The basis here is the sensibility of our nature. " Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness" (JS Mill's Utilitarianism, p. 9). Scheme of Evolution. — " Conduct is a whole, and, in a sense, it...

...Mill dealt with the materials at hand. "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 privation of pleasure."1) We are to regard man, for ethical purposes, as...

...says, in exposition of the theory : " 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."2 He remarks further: "To think of an object as desirable and to think of it as pleasant...

...Mill declares that the foundation of morals is in the principle of greatest happiness, which means that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, and wrong if they tend to produce pain. With each the first question is, whence is the ideal ? Mill...

...rescuing it from this utter degradation l. 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 un. nappiness, pain and the privation of plea"sure. To give a clear view of the moral standard set...

...inherent in themselves, or as means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain." Hence actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. The happiness which is the end of life is not, however, " the agent's own greatest happiness, but the...

...becomes moral by rationalising as to the pleasurable. The basis of the theory has been stated thus: ' Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...happiness, wrong 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,'—...

...156. 3 Cf. Mill's Utilitarianism, ch. 2. "The creed which accepts i the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promol happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happines: By happiness is intended pleasure,...

...single aspect of conduct as identical with the concrete whole. Mill states the position as follows : "Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...is intended pleasure and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness pain and the privation of pleasure. Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things...

...utilitarians, pleasure and exemption from pain. Utilitarianism is the theory that actions _are__righiia proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. Pleasure and freedom from pain are, on this theory, the only things desirable as ends ; and desirable...