...this subjection and assumes it as the foundation of that system. By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question." This doctrine is of course not new, but in Bentham's hands it was turned from a philosophic doctrine...

...this subjection and assumes it as the foundation of that system. By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question." This doctrine is of course not new, but in Bentham's hands it was turned from a philosophic doctrine...

...this subjection and assumes it as the foundation of that system. By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question." This doctrine is of course not new, but in Bentham's hands it was turned from a philosophic doctrine...

....this subjection and assumes it as the foundation of that system. By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every...whatsoever, according to the tendency which it appears to haveHo augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question." This doctrine...

...hands of reason and law." 1 C. The principle of utility. Bentham defines the principle of utility as "that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question." 2 The word party must not be understood merely in the sense of an individual, but as a general term...

...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...

...or pains of the individuals making it up. The principle of utility, or greatest happiness principle, "approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever,...happiness of the party whose interest is in question." 1 See references in WC Mitchell, "Bentham's Felicific Calculus," Pol. Sci. Quar., June, 1918. * Principles...

...happiness of the individual."45 As a principle applicable to the dealings of man with man, utility "approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever,...happiness of the party whose interest is in question ; or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or oppose that happiness. I say of every action...

...„by the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every actior whatsoever according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminuish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question" (Works, I, S. i). Das Ziel der...

...rear the fabric of felicity by the hands or reason and of law... By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question. .. .I say of every action whatsoever and therefore not only of every action of a private individual,...