 | Robert William Dimand, Chris Nyland - 2003 - 332 Seiten
...principle of ascetism, 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 so far as they tend to diminish his happiness; disapproving... | |
 | Martin Cohen - 2003 - 354 Seiten
...hero. Dilemma 19 Against e-Ville The principle of utility judges any action to be right by the tendency it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interests are in question ... if that party be the community, the happiness of the community, if a... | |
 | Samuel Gregg - 2003 - 148 Seiten
...Mill. He concluded that the emphasis placed by Bentham and the French philosophes on utility — "the principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question"2... | |
 | Nicholas Deakin, Catherine Jones Finer, Bob Matthews - 2004 - 338 Seiten
...give an explicit and determinate account of what is meant by it. By the principle2 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... | |
 | Gordon Graham - 2004 - 240 Seiten
...principle of utility is the foundation of the present work. ... 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,... | |
 | Charles Robert McCann - 2004 - 258 Seiten
...moral standards.2 With these standards thus established, Bentham defines the principle of utility as "that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question," with utility itself being that property in any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage,... | |
 | Elizabeth Burns, Stephen Law - 2004 - 322 Seiten
...principle of ethics, which is known as the 'principle of utility' or 'greatest happiness principle', is 'that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question' (Bentham 1962: 34). Or again, 'that principle which states the greatest happiness of all those whose... | |
 | Abdulhay Sayed - 2004 - 518 Seiten
...Morals and Legislation, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, M CM VII): "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." (Ch. I, II); "By... | |
 | Nicholas P. Guehlstorf - 2004 - 216 Seiten
...amount of human happiness or pleasure. Bentham famously writes: By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question (Bentham, 1967, 126). As a political system, utilitarianism argues that government must determine the... | |
 | Robert A. Bowie - 2004 - 356 Seiten
...as the greatest happiness principle, or a theory of usefulness: 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... | |
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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... 
