...— Warburtan's Letters. DXXXIV. The Principle of Utility. — By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every...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. 1 say of every...

...soon. THINKINGS FROM JEREMY BENTHAM. THE PRINCIPLE OF UTILITY. — By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every...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. I say of every...

...when THINKINGS FROM JEREMY BENTHAM. THE PRINCIPLE OF UTILITY. — By the principle of utility is meant that principle "which approves or disapproves of every...to augment or diminish the happiness of the party 's*whose interest is in question ; or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose...

...utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according tq the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness pf the party whose interest is in question ; or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote...

...as means of securing the desired result. Thus Bentham says : " By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question." l According to Locke, " Moral good and evil is only the conformity or disagreement of our voluntary...

...light.' — Bentham's Principles of Morah and Legislation, ch. i. ' By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question.' — Ibid. ' Je regarde 1'amour e'clum' de uous-memes eomme le principe de tout sacrifice morale.' —...

...the prospect of future, private happiness." " By the principle of utility," sajs Bentham, "is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question." " Happiness," says Mill, K b the sole end of human action, and the promotion of it the test by which...

...light.' — Bentham's Principles of Morals and Legislation, ch. i. ' By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every...diminish the happiness of the party whose interest ia in question.' — Ibid. ' Je regards 1'amour e'claire' de nous-mimes comme le principe de tout sacrifice...

...Morals and Legislation (1789), 1. 1, Works, ed. by Bowring, 1. 1. 'By the principle of utility is meant, that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question.' — Ib. 1. 2. ' When an action ... is supposed by a man to be conformable to the principle of utility,...

...thing to commence with accepting Mr. Bentham's own definition : " By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question. . . Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It...