 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 374 páginas
...may be learned by two characteristic passages : — " Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is...causes and effects are fastened to their throne." — " Bentham's Introd. • of Morals," vol. 1. c. 1. And again : — " But is it never then, from... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 376 páginas
...may be learned by two characteristic passages : — "Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is...what we ought to do. as well as to determine what wo shall do. On the one hand, the standard of right and wrong ; on the other, the chain of causes and... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1856 - 368 páginas
...theory, also, as to the basis of moral obligation, may be learned by two characteristic passages: — " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...causes and effects are fastened to their throne." — " Bentham's Introd. of Morals," vol. 1, c. 1. And again: — " But is it never, then, from any... | |
 | Henry Carleton - 1857 - 182 páginas
...Nature," says Jeremy Bentham, " has placed mankind under 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 ; they govern us in all we do, in all we say, and in all we think. Every effort we can make to throw... | |
 | Charles Anthony Coke - 1864 - 212 páginas
...admire." — JBulwer. " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, p<z/ra And pleasure. It " is for them alone to point out...what we shall do. On the " one hand the standard of wright and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to '• their throne.... | |
 | H. Coleman - 1865 - 234 páginas
...principii, consists in the undue assumption of a premiss. " nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is...the standard of right and wrong, on. the other the chains of causes and effects are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say,... | |
 | James Frederick Ferrier - 1866 - 620 páginas
...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 to be the two sovereign masters of mankind... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1868 - 368 páginas
...may bo learned by two characteristic passages: — "Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is...causes and effects are fastened to their throne." — " Bentham's Introd. of Morals," vol. ). c. 1. And again : — " But is it never then, from any... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1868 - 904 páginas
...for Ethics, or Morals. The first chapter, entitled ' THE PRINCIPLE OP UTILITY,' begins thus : — ' Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...the standard of right and wrong ; on the other, the chaiu of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say,... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1868 - 902 páginas
...for Ethics, or Morals. The first chapter, entitled ' THE PRINCIPLE OP UTILITY,' begins thus : — ' Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the ouo hand, the standard of right and wrong ; on the other, the chain of causes and effects, are fastened... | |
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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. 
