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... The Principles of Morals - Page 100by Thomas Fowler, John Matthias Wilson - 1886Full view - About this book
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1795 - 614 pages
...principle * of utility is is meant that principle which approves or difapproves of every aftion whatfoevcr, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminifh the happinefs of the party whofe intereft ii in queilion : or, what is the fame thing in other... | |
| 1795 - 612 pages
...\v;rds primus, firlt, is meant that principle which approves or difapproves of every afilón whatfoever, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminilh the happinefs or the party ivhofc interell is in queltion : or, wlut is the fame thing in... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1795 - 614 pages
...principle * of utility is is meant that principle which approves or difapproves of every aftion whatfoevcr, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminifh the happinefs of the party whofe intereft ii in queilion : or, what is the fame thing in other... | |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - 532 pages
...of light.' — Bentham's Principles of Morals and Legislation, ch. i. ' By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves...happiness of the party whose interest is in question.' — Ibid. ' Je regarde 1'amour delaire' de nous-memes comme le principe de tout sacrifice morale.'... | |
| Jeremy Bentham - 1823 - 326 pages
...the acceptance, that might otherwise have been given, to this principle. the principle * of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves...action whatsoever, according to the tendency which what. it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question... | |
| Jeremy Bentham - 1823 - 332 pages
...the acceptance, that might otherwise have been given, to this principle. the principle* of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves...action whatsoever, according to the tendency which whalit appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question... | |
| 1825 - 788 pages
...Morals and Legislation : — " By the principle of utility," (says the author of that work), " I mean that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question ; and not only of every action of a private individual, but of every measure of government."1 To make... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 816 pages
...Morals and Legislation : — " By the principle of utility," (says the author of that work), " Г maan that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question ; and not only of every action of a private individual, but of every measure of government."1 To make... | |
| 1832 - 952 pages
...doctrines we now give in his own words :-— THE PRINCIPLE OF UTILITY. By the principle of utility, is meant that principle which approves or disapproves...other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness. I say of every action whatsoever ; and therefore not only of every action of a private individual,... | |
| Jeremy Bentham - 1838 - 334 pages
...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 inversive manner : approving of actions in as far as they tend to diminish his happiness... | |
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