 By the principle of self-preference, understand that propensity in human nature, by which, on the occasion of every act he exercises, every human being is led to pursue that line of conduct which, according to his view of the case, taken by him at the...  The Methods of Ethics - Seite 39von Henry Sidgwick - 1901 - 526 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1841 - 342 Seiten
...propensity in human nature, by which, on the occasion of every act he exercises, every human being is led to pursue that line of conduct which, according...degree contributory to his own greatest happiness, whatsoever be the effect of it, in relation to the happiness of other similar beings, any or all of... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1843 - 624 Seiten
...propensity in human nature, by which, on the occasion of every act he exercises, every human being is led to pursue that line of conduct which, according...degree contributory to his own greatest happiness, whatsoever be the effect of it, in relation to the happiness of other similar beings, any or all of... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1843 - 682 Seiten
...propensity in human nature, by which, on the occasion of every act he exercises, every human being is led to pursue that line of conduct which, according...degree contributory to his own greatest happiness, whatsoever be the effect of it, in relation to the happiness of other similar beings, any or nil of... | |
 | 1872 - 848 Seiten
...predominant ; " or, more explicitly, " on the occasion of every act he exercises, every human being is led to pursue that line of conduct which, according...degree contributory to his own greatest happiness, whatsoever be the effect of it in relation to the happiness of other similar beings, any or all of... | |
 | 1893 - 578 Seiten
...For instance, Bentham affirms that "on the occasion of every act he exercises, every human being is led to pursue that line of conduct which, according...degree contributory to his own greatest happiness " :l and as Bentham also holds that the " constantly proper end of action 011 the part of every individual... | |
 | Hendrik Du Marchie van Voorthuysen - 1876 - 196 Seiten
...human nature, by which, on the occasion of every act he excercises, every human being is led to pnrsne that line of conduct which , according to his view of the case, taken by him at the moment, witt be in the highest degree contributory to his own greatest happiness, whatsoever be the effect... | |
 | Henry Sidgwick - 1884 - 200 Seiten
...precision of his later style) that "on the occasion of every act he exercises, every human being is led to pursue that line of conduct which, according...the highest degree contributory to his own greatest happiness1"; the proposition that a man 'ought' to pursue such conduct is incapable of being affirmed... | |
 | William Ritchie Sorley - 1885 - 348 Seiten
...the agent is asserted always to 1 " On the occasion of every act he exercises, every human being is led to pursue that line of conduct which, according...degree contributory to his own greatest happiness." — • Constitutional Code, book i. § 2 ; Works, ix. 5. The continued existence of the species is,... | |
 | Frank Chapman Sharp - 1893 - 142 Seiten
...as formulated in the classic words: "On the occasion of every act he exercises, every human being is led to pursue that line of conduct which, according...degree contributory to his own greatest happiness?" l Far from it, for all that we have attempted is to show by a careful examination of typical cases... | |
 | Frank Chapman Sharp - 1898 - 144 Seiten
...as formulated in the classic words: "On the occasion of every act he exercises, every human being is led to pursue that line of conduct which, according...the highest degree contributory to his own greatest happiness?"1 Far from itr for all -that we have attempted is to show by a careful examination of typical... | |
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