| James Frederick Ferrier - Philosophy - 1888 - 744 pages
...anxiously shunned and condemned. " Nature," says Jeremy Bentham, " has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pleasure and pain. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do." Whether, and in what sense, pleasure and pain may be said... | |
| Universalism - 1888 - 538 pages
...had, can or could have," says Bentham, " a motive different from the pursuit of pleasure or shunning pain* It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other... | |
| William Stanley Jevons - Logic - 1890 - 346 pages
...- that 'Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other... | |
| James Martineau - Authority - 1890 - 714 pages
...says Bentham, " has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other... | |
| Jeremy Bentham - Utilitarianism - 1890 - 36 pages
...UTILITY. I. NATTJBE has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other... | |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1890 - 508 pages
...disoours ii. 'Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. . . . The principle of utility recognises this subjection,... | |
| John Dewey - Ethics - 1891 - 288 pages
...elements. " Nature has placed man under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, [ie they are criteria] as well as to determine what we shall do [motives], On the one hand, the standard... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1891 - 576 pages
...that ' Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other... | |
| John Dewey - Ethics - 1891 - 300 pages
...elements. " Nature has placed man under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, [i. e, they are criteria] as well as to determine what we shall do [motives]. On the one hand, the... | |
| James Bonar - Economic history - 1893 - 440 pages
...introductory chapter of the Principles of Morals and Legislation) "has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pleasure and pain. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do " (Clar. Press ed., p. i). A man's actions result from his... | |
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