...the promotion of it the test by which to judge of all human conduct' 'i Here is the formal statement: 'The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals,...the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions ore right in proportion as they (end to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse...

...sight of that Mr. Mill maintained Pleasure to be the one only standard of right. "The creed," he wrote, "which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility...happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure." "Pleasure and the freedom from...

...the promotion of it the test by which to judge of all human conduct'? Here is the formal statement: "The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals,...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.' If it be observed, as a fact, that virtue is often desired for its own sake, the explanation is: 'We...

...I. pp. 9, 10. « Springs of Action, I. § 15. 9 Fragment on Mackintosh, p. 389. Again, JS Mill says: 'The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals...reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and~~-j the absence of pain : by unhappiness. pain, and the privation r of pleasure. To give a clear...

...ultimate good; while, on the other hand, the "greatest-happiness principle" denned as "the creed which holds that actions are right in proportion as they...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness," is not primdfatie bound up with the doctrine that all desires are desires of pleasure. It is worthy...

...ultimate good ; while, on the other hand, the " greatest-happiness principle" denned as " the creed which holds that actions are right in proportion as they...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness," is not primA facie bound up with the doctrine that all desires are desires of pleasure. It is worthy...

...the promotion of it the test by which to judge of all human conduct'? Here is the formal statement: . . . linked pro|x>rtion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong a» they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.'...

...is performed. Now that, generically speaking, is the pleasure of the agent V Again, JS Mill says : ' The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals...happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of,. pain: by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasurej To give a clear view of the...

...in the language, and offers, in many cases, a convenient mode of avoiding tiresome circumlocution. Happiness -Principle, holds that actions | are right in proportion as they tend to promotoJiaEomess, wrong as they tend to j - produce the _reverse of happiness. By_ / happiness is intended...

...Utilitarian theory of its nature. Mr. Mill thus states the Utilitarian doctrine on this point : — " The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals,...happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure. To give a clear view of the...