 | Kenneth G. Butler - 2001 - 320 pages
...add to the sum total of his pleasure: or, what comes to diminish the sum total, of his pains. Vain action then may be said to be conformable to the principle...community is greater than any it has to diminish it. is Mill was even clearer than Bentham that this idea of utility applies to the evaluation of personal... | |
 | Donald A. Schon - 2001 - 228 pages
...reminiscent of it runs through Jeremy Bentham's Principles of Morals and Legislation. For example: An action then may be said to be conformable to the principle of utility . . . when the tendency it has to augment the happiness of the community is greater than any it has... | |
 | Linda C. Raeder - 2002 - 418 pages
...the Benthamite lexicon) and this for the community as a whole: "An action is conformable to utility when the tendency it has to augment the happiness...community is greater than any it has to diminish it" (ibid.). Bentham regarded the general or collective happiness as not only objective but as quantifiable... | |
 | Christopher Enright - 2002 - 612 pages
...There is, he said, a "principle of utility" which regards as good action an action whose "tendency to augment the happiness of the community is greater than any it has to diminish it." 40 Francis Hutcheson, Treatise II Concerning Moral Good and Evil sec 3, 8. Or as Heidi M Hurd puts... | |
 | Steve Keen - 2001 - 356 pages
...the individuals who comprise it, and Bentham perceived no difficulty in performing this summation: An action then may be said to be conformable to the principle of utility... when the tendency it has to augment the happiness of the community is greater than any it has to diminish... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 496 pages
...sum total of his pleasures: or, what comes to the same thing, to diminish the sum total of his pains. An action then may be said to be conformable to the...community is greater than any it has to diminish it. A measure of government (which is but a particular kind of action, performed by a particular person... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 494 pages
...to he conformahle to or dictated hv the principle of utility, when in like manner the tendency which it has to augment the happiness of the community is greater than any which it has to diminish it. When an action, or in particular a measure of government, is supposed... | |
 | J. B. Schneewind - 2003 - 696 pages
...to be conformable to or dictated by the principle of utility, when in like manner the tendency which it has to augment the happiness of the community is greater than any which it has to diminish it. VIII. When an action, or in particular a measure of government, is supposed... | |
 | Marjana Martinic, Barbara C. Leigh - 2004 - 208 pages
...property in any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness . . . when the tendency it has to augment the happiness...community is greater than any it has to diminish it" (Bernstein, 1996, p. 189). The utility of an item, a behavior, or a choice comprises both the probability... | |
 | John Rowland Dinwiddy, William L. Twining - 2004 - 220 pages
...to be conformable to or dictated by the principle of utility, when in like manner the tendency which it has to augment the happiness of the community is greater than any which it has to diminish it. Lyons admits that these paragraphs seem to leave no room for a dual standard;... | |
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A measure of government (which is but a particular kind of action, performed by a particular person or persons) may be said to be conformable to or dictated by the principle of utility, when in like manner the tendency which it has to augment the happiness... 
