...Bentham (1789, Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation) famously said: 'Utility is ... that property in any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness ... or ... to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil, or unhappiness'. Experienced affect is...

...anatomy of utility as a property foreboding pleasure or pain, may be read too as a retheorizing of loss: "By utility is meant that property in any object,...unhappiness to the party whose interest is considered." 56 Bentham goes on to suggest the following heuristic for assessing future harm: Sum up all the values...

...eating well) and minimizing pain (in this case starving wilfully). "By utility," as Bentham has it, "is meant that property in any object, whereby it...evil, or unhappiness to the party whose interest is concerned."" Or perhaps, the friend chooses as the text of his sermon one of Bentham's many fulminations...

...Jeremy Bentham, the British social philosopher and legal scholar. Utility, Bentham wrote in 1780, is "that property in any object, whereby it tends to...produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness ... or ... to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil, or unhappiness."2 So to Bentham, utility...

...paragraphs later, however, Bentham gives a broader statement: "By utility is meant that property in an object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness (all of this in the present case comes to the same thing), or (what comes again to the same thing) to prevent...

...therefore not only of every action of a private individual, but of every measure of government. III. By utility is meant that property in any object, whereby...if that party be the community in general, then the this for shortness, instead of saying at length that principle which states the greatest happiness...

...2006i, 43f). Ein strikter präferiertes 4 Hier wird also zunächst Bentham (1823, 2) gefolgt, wonach: „By utility is meant that property in any object,...(what comes again to the same thing) to prevent the napping of mischief, pain, evil, or unhappiness to the party whose interest is considered" (zitiert...

...pleasure or as a collection of pleasures. Jeremy Bentham claimed: 'By utility is meant that property of any object whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage,...this in the present case comes to the same thing)'. (Bentham 1780 [1967: 368]). Bentham believed we could determine right actions by carrying out a calculus,...

...claim that whatever maximizes utility is morally right. Bentham defined utility specifically as the "property in any object, whereby it tends to produce...benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness... or... to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil, or unhappiness to the party whose interest...