 | Ann Allart Wilcock - 2006 - 392 σελίδες
...as well as "unhappiness" to capture the negative aspects of individuals' lives.19 Bentham proposed "nature has placed mankind under the governance of...It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do."20 Pain and pleasure could be measured according to duration and intensity.19 Owen and Southwood-Smith's... | |
 | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Isabella Selega Csikszentmihalyi - 2006 - 264 σελίδες
...that reduces overall suffering; therefore, it is moral for the new school. Nature has placed humanity under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain...is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, John Stuart Mill (1859, 1962) recognized that utilitarian thinking with its reduction of human motivation... | |
 | George W. Harris - 2006 - 9 σελίδες
...opening lines of An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation are stark but instructive: Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard... | |
 | VD Mahajan - 2006 - 936 σελίδες
...published in 1789. In that book, much light was thrown on the philosophy of utilitarianism. His slogan was: "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...sovereign masters, pain and pleasure; it is for them to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do." According to Bentham,... | |
 | Neil Messer - 2006 - 260 σελίδες
...empirical observation - that is, a statement about what is the case, based on experience and observation: 'Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.'14 In other words, we all naturally try to maximize our happiness, which Bentham defines... | |
 | Robert E. Babe, Robert Babe - 2006 - 249 σελίδες
...economics, which, to recall, maintain that human behaviour is quite predictable; in the words of Bentham, 'Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.'16 Although credited with but a minor tract devoted to economics,17 Aristotle broached the... | |
 | Keally McBride - 2007 - 212 σελίδες
...home. Without any clear consequences for our actions, we would always choose to avoid pain and seek pleasure. "Nature has placed mankind under the governance...causes and effects, are fastened to their throne." 32 To achieve good behavior, morality needs to be attached to pain and pleasure: we will suffer when... | |
 | Alan Ertl - 2007 - 467 σελίδες
...and pain principle, and this provided the standard of value needed for any censorial jurisprudence. "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...causes and effects, are fastened to their throne." 31 Around these principles Bentham developed a theory of law based on the greatest happiness principle.... | |
 | Russ Shafer-Landau - 2007 - 815 σελίδες
...See his Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789), Chap. I, first paragraph: "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: every effort we can make to throw... | |
 | Shlomo Giora Shoham, Ori Beck, Martin Kett - 2007 - 800 σελίδες
...to commit an act of crime, and thereby cause him or her to refrain from committing an act of crime. "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as determine what we shall do" (Bentham 1970:11). A straightforward deterrence argument may read something... | |
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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. 
