...Utilitarianism " : " The creed which accepts, as the foundation of Morals, Utility, or the Greatest-happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." The rule that is deduced from this is : Act to produce what you conceive to be the greatest happiness...

...Stuart Mill ( Utilitarianism, p. 9) : " The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, utility, or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to produce happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended...

...the end and criterion of conduct. " 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 privation of pleasure. To give a clear view of the moral standard set up by the...

...in the language, and offers, in many cases, a convenient mode of avoiding tiresome circumlocution. Happiness Principle,] holds that actions are right...is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.^ To give a\ clear view of the moral standard set...

...morals Utility, or the " Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in pro' ' portion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend...is intended "pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and "the privation of pleasure." The most prominent Utilitarians of the living generation...

...analysis and experience of man as a social being eminently adapted to social development. When he says that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, and that by happiness he means pleasure, he makes it clear in the sequel that he really intends to...

...* Cf. Mill's Utilitarianism, ch. 2. "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 It is even more important — in view of the epithet Neo-Kantian, so often applied to Green — to...

...thy view : If pains must come, let them extend to few." 1 n., chap. xvii, p. 313. 8 Deontology. mote happiness ; wrong, as they tend to produce the reverse...happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure.1 Some kinds of pleasure, however, are more desirable...

...1806-1873. Utilitarianism, 1861. See also Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind, by James Mill. mote happiness ; wrong, as they tend to produce the reverse...happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure.1 Some kinds of pleasure, however, are more desirable...

...formulates the principle of Utilitarianism : " The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals utility, or the Greatest Happiness principle, holds that actions...by unhappiuess pain and the privation of pleasure " ( Utilitarianism, p. 9). We are not told whether it is here a question of the happiness of the individual...