UtilitarianismProgressive Publishing Company, 1890 - 29 σελίδες |
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28 STONECUTTER ST 28 STONECUTTER STREET 66 I feel Appendix applied approves or disapproves augment the happiness Bentham's called Collins Common Law common sense conformable datur declamation despotism dictates of utility diminish the happiness farther G. W. FOOTE God's pleasure ground of action HARVARD COLLEGE hate imagination instances judge and act Law of Nature law or dictate less let him ask let him say long footnote Lord Coke LUDWIG FEUERBACH matter mean that principle measure of government ment mischief misery moral sense motive ness notions number of stripes occasion ourselves as unhappy particular party whose interest person phantastic principle philosophical party phrases politics practice pretend principle of asceticism principle of caprice principle of sympathy principle of utility principles adverse quarrel question reason religionists reprobated right and wrong right ground right principle rule of right satis Servitus servitutis standard of right sympathy and antipathy tell tincture tion unnatural UTILITARIANISM words
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Σελίδα 5 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Σελίδα 12 - By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the 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.
Σελίδα 5 - ... we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think; every effort we can make to throw off our subjection will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire ; but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while.
Σελίδα 25 - One man says, he has a thing made on purpose to tell him what is right and what is wrong; and that it is called a 'moral sense:' and then he goes to work at his ease, and says, such a thing is right, and such a thing is wrong - why? 'Because my moral sense tells me it is.
Σελίδα 6 - The -principle of utility recognizes this subjection, and assumes it for the foundation of that system, the object of which is to rear the fabric of felicity by the hands of reason and of law. Systems which attempt to question it deal in sounds instead of sense, in caprice instead of reason, in darkness instead of light.
Σελίδα 7 - The community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting as it were its members. The interest of the community then is, what? — the sum of the interests of the several members who compose it.
Σελίδα 6 - By utility is meant that property in any object whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness (all this in the present case conies to the same thing) , or (what comes again to the same thing) to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil, or unhappiness to the party whose interest is considered...
Σελίδα 27 - The fairest and openest of them all is that sort of man who speaks out, and says, I am of the number of the Elect: now God himself takes care to inform the Elect what is right: and that with so good effect, that let them strive ever so, they cannot help not only knowing it but practising it.
Σελίδα 7 - A thing is said to promote the interest, or to be for the interest, of an individual, when it tends to add to the sum total of his pleasures : or, what comes to the same thing, to diminish the sum total of his pains.
Σελίδα 7 - When an action, or in particular a measure of government, is supposed by a man to be conformable to the principle of utility, it may be convenient, for the purposes of discourse, to imagine a kind of law or dictate, called a law or dictate of utility: and to speak of the action in question, as being conformable to such law or dictate.