 | Robert Rolle - 2005 - 410 σελίδες
...und klassische naturrechtliche Theorie 8.1. Utilitanstische Ethik und Ökonomie bei Jeremy Bentham „Nature has placed mankind under the governance...is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, äs well äs to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the Standard of right and wrong, on the... | |
 | Anthony Kessel - 2006 - 272 σελίδες
...Legislation of 1789 [14], that human beings are subject to, and slaves to, two poles of sensation: Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure . . . They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw... | |
 | James C. McEleney, Barbara Lavin McEleney - 2005 - 164 σελίδες
...recognized the existence of human free will. But such is clearly not the case. Bentham clearly states, "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure." (Bentham, (1789) 1948:1) Pleasure and pain are the ultimate deciders. Man, then, is reduced to a mere... | |
 | Klaus Günter Grunert, John Thøgersen - 2005 - 392 σελίδες
...Jeremy Bentham Bentham (1748-1832), who was a lawyer, formulated the fundamentals of utilitarianism: Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. 1t is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On... | |
 | Gene Bammel - 2005 - 438 σελίδες
...twentieth century moralists as RM Hare and Peter Singer. Bentham 's initial statement is quite simple: "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. ft is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do." In... | |
 | Kenneth R. Himes, Lisa Sowle Cahill - 2005 - 580 σελίδες
...(1748-1832) and John Stuart Mill (1806-73). Bentham attempted to base ethics on an account of nature — "nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure"65 — but he was adamantly opposed to natural law and dismissed natural rights as "fictions"... | |
 | Mark R. Amstutz - 2005 - 284 σελίδες
...by their "utility" or results. As Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), the founder of this movement argued, "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure."4 The task of government is thus to establish policies that maximize collective pleasure... | |
 | Joshua D. Goldstein - 2005 - 292 σελίδες
...6 See Bentham's statement of the principle of utility in The Principles of Morals and Legislation: "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...causes and effects, are fastened to their throne" (p. 1). Although Hegel had not read Bentham, the underlying assumptions and logic of the utilitarian... | |
 | Morris Altman - 2006 - 794 σελίδες
...goes back to the Greeks (Georgescu-Roegen l968). According to Bentham (reprinted in Mack l969, 86), "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. . . . They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think." In the paragraph this quote comes... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 2006 - 348 σελίδες
...general, and include his ethical theory. ' Nature has placed mankind ' (that is his opening phrase) ' under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain...to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.' There is the unassailable basis. It had been laid down as unequivocally by Locke,3 and had been embodied... | |
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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. 
