| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1809 - 532 pages
...light.' — Bentham's Principles of Morals and Legislation, ch. i. ' By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every...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 - Crime - 1823 - 332 pages
...acceptance, that might otherwise have been given, to this principle. the principle* of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every...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... | |
| Jeremy Bentham - Crime - 1823 - 326 pages
...acceptance, that might otherwise have been given, to this principle. the principle * of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every...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... | |
| Scottish periodicals - 1832 - 952 pages
...we now give in his own words :-— THE PRINCIPLE OF UTILITY. 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... | |
| Jeremy Bentham - 1838 - 334 pages
...give an explicit and determinate account of what is meant by it. By the principlef 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... | |
| John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 258 pages
...reason.— Warburton's Letters. DXXX1V. The Principle of Utility.—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... | |
| Theology - 1872 - 882 pages
...as means of securing the desired result. Thus Bentham says : " By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question." 1 According to Locke, " Moral good and evil is only the conformity or disagreement of our voluntary... | |
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