 | 1861 - 882 pages
...circumlocution. 394 395 affect the theory of life on which this theory of morality is grounded — namely, that pleasure, and freedom from pain, are...promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain. Now, such a theory of life excites in many minds, and among them in some of the most estimable in feeling... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Decision making - 1863 - 120 pages
...supplementary explanations do not affect the theory of life on which this theory of morality is grounded — namely, that pleasure, and freedom from pain, are...promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain. Now, such a theory of life excites in many minds, and among them in some of the most estimable in feeling... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism - 1864 - 108 pages
...supplementary explanations do not affect the theory of life on which this theory of morality is grounded— namely, that pleasure, and freedom from pain, are...promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain. Now, such a theory of life excites in many minds, and among them in some of the most estimable in feeling... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1864 - 502 pages
...: — " But these do not affect the theory of life on which this theory of morality is grounded — namely, that pleasure and freedom from pain, are the...promotion of pleasure, and the prevention of pain." Mr. Mill then goes on, very properly, to add : " Now, such a theory of life excites in many minds,... | |
 | Charles Tennant - Utilitarianism - 1864 - 486 pages
...theory of life on which this theory of morality is grounded—namely, that pleasure and freedom froih pain, are the only things desirable as ends; and that...promotion of pleasure, and the prevention of pain." Mr. Mill then goes on, very properly, to add : " Now, such a theory of life excites in many minds,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - History - 1864 - 406 pages
...supplementary explanations do not affect the theory of life on which this theory of morality is grounded, — namely, that pleasure, and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends ; and that alt desirable things (which are ns numerous in the utilitarian as in any other scheme) are desirable... | |
 | William McCombie - Christianity and culture - 1864 - 178 pages
...desirable^Bds > and that all desirable things (which are numerous in the utilitarian as in anyTther scheme,) are desirable, either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain." '• According to the Greatest Happiness... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1865 - 666 pages
...privation of pleasure." " Pleasure and the freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends, and all desirable things (which are as numerous in the...promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain." As to the proof of the principle of "utility," Mr. Mill remarks that " questions of ultimate ends do... | |
 | 1879 - 736 pages
...supplementary explanations do not affect the theory of life on which this theory of morality is grounded — namely, that pleasure, and freedom from pain, are...things (which are as numerous in the utilitarian as any other scheme) are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as means to the... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1868 - 670 pages
...proportion as they tend to promote happiness, ' wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends ; and all desirable things (which are as numerous in the utilitarian as in any other scheme) are desirable... | |
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... pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends; and that all desirable things (which are as numerous in the utilitarian as in any other scheme) are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as means to the... 
