 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1894 - 506 Seiten
...ch. i. ' By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of erery action whatsoever, according to the tendency which...happiness of the party whose interest is in question.' — Ibid. ' Jeregardel'amoureclaire de nous-memes comme le principe de tout sacrifice moral.' — D'Alembert... | |
 | John Watson - 1895 - 280 Seiten
...doctrine. I. He has no hesitation in rejecting as false all other principles except that of " utility," the principle which " approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question." The advene principles which he criticizes are those of asceticism and sympathy and antipathy. (a) Asceticism... | |
 | Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge - 1897 - 518 Seiten
...I mean that principle, which, like the principle of utility, approves or disapproves of any action, according to the tendency which it appears to have...happiness of the party whose interest is in question ; but in an inverse manner : approving of actions in as far as they tend to diminish his happiness... | |
 | Alfred Augustus Stockton - 1898 - 208 Seiten
...Bentham grounds his views upon the principle of utility. He defines the principle of utility to be " 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 oppose that happiness." ' He applies this... | |
 | Alfred Tuttle Williams - 1907 - 108 Seiten
...do, in all we say, in all we think." With this view in mind he formulates his principle of utility, "that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question." Or, as it was later termed by the author, the greatest happiness principle. This principle becomes... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1907 - 422 Seiten
...T i asceticism. which, like the principle of utility, approves or disapproves of what, any action, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whcse interest is in question ; but in an inverse manner : approving of actions in as far as they tend... | |
 | Marion Parris - 1909 - 130 Seiten
...principle of utility. The nature of this principle is most definitely stated. "By the principle is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question." The position which Bentham assumes is that the phenomenon which we designate as ''moral approval'!... | |
 | Benjamin Rand - 1909 - 832 Seiten
...give an explicit and determinate account of what is meant by it. 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 action... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1910 - 508 Seiten
...light.' — Bentham's Prineiples of Morals and Legislation, ch.i. ' By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every...action whatsoever, according to the tendency which it appeai's to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whoso interest is in question.'... | |
 | Reginald Arthur Percy Rogers - 1911 - 338 Seiten
...well as to determine what we shall do." Upon this foundation is based the " principle of utility," which " approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever...happiness of the party whose interest is in question." This " party " is, in general, the community, and its interest is the " sum " of the interests of its... | |
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By the principle* of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question : or, what... 
