 | John Dewey - 1891 - 300 σελίδες
...Legislation, Works, Vol. I, p. 1} gives a statement of both these elements. " Nature has placed man under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain...is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, [i. e, they are criteria] as well as to determine what we shall do [motives]. On the one hand, the... | |
 | John Dewey - 1891 - 288 σελίδες
...Legislation, Works, Vol. I, p. 1) gives a statement of both these elements. " Nature has placed man under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain...is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, [ie they are criteria] as well as to determine what we shall do [motives], On the one hand, the standard... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1891 - 506 σελίδες
...Touthomme ne prend dans ses jugemer.ts conseil quo de soninterct.' — Re,\vktm$ Del Esprit, discours ii. 'Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alon« to point out what we ought to do as well as to determine what we shall do. . . . The principle... | |
 | James Bonar - 1893 - 438 σελίδες
...Legislation) " has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pleasure and pain. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do " (Clar. Press ed., p. 1). A man's actions result from his calculation of the balance of consequences... | |
 | James Bonar - 1893 - 440 σελίδες
...Legislation) " has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pleasure and pain. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do " (Clar. Press ed., p. 1). A man's actions result from his calculation of the balance of consequences... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 σελίδες
...pleasure, and teacheth the luxury of health. ^-Tapper. Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is...causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. — Bentham. Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow. — Cotton. The alleviating of pain... | |
 | Henry Clay Sheldon - 1894 - 462 σελίδες
...eighteenth century, was a stalwart advocate of this theory. " Nature has placed mankind," he says, " under the governance of two 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... | |
 | Charles Douglas - 1895 - 330 σελίδες
...James Mill's ethics.3 It received, however, its most definite expression in Bentham's assertion that " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone ... to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain... | |
 | 1896 - 608 σελίδες
...Principles of Morals and Legislation. " Nature ( has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign I masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to...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... | |
 | PROFESSOR DANIEL LYONS - 1899 - 552 σελίδες
...action. Nature having placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, Pleasure and Pain, it is for them alone to point out what we ought to do. This doctrine is the foundation of Utilitarianism (which see). BENTHAMITE, ben'tham-ït, n. one who... | |
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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. 
