 | Jeremy Bentham - 1876 - 412 páginas
...governance of two Mankind sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to ly'pSn and point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we pt IMU> shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1878 - 368 páginas
...may be learned by two characteristic passages : — " Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what wo ought to do. as well as to determine what wo shall do. On the one hand, the standard of right and... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1879 - 430 páginas
...governance of two Mankind sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to ly pain and point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we pe shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and... | |
 | 1879 - 610 páginas
...Professor Jevons' theory, such, eg, as are suggested by his adoption of Jeremy Bentham's dictum that " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters — pain md. pleasure," and the extreme utilitarianism based upon this supposed fact. But we will only point... | |
 | George Sylvester Morris - 1880 - 398 páginas
...unequivocally expresses at the beginning of his introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation : " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...causes and effects, are fastened to their throne." This is the metaphysical — or quasi-metaphysical — kernel of Benthamism. James Mill, being introduced... | |
 | George Sylvester Morris - 1880 - 404 páginas
...introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation : " Nature has placed mankind under the govern. ance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is...right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and eifects, are fastened to their throne." This is the metaphysical — or quasi-metaphysical — kernel... | |
 | Frederick Ryland - 1880 - 196 páginas
...only because of the pains which it produces." Again, "Nature has placed Mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do." " By the principle of utility is meant, that principle which approves or disapproves of every action... | |
 | Īśvarakr̥ṣṇa, John Davies - 1881 - 176 páginas
...the body.2 The latter can only procure a better state of bodily connection ; it cannot destroy it. under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain...ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do " (Jeremy Bentham, Introd. to Prin. of Morals, &c., cx ss. 9, 10, cis i). 2 In the system of Bentham... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1883 - 202 páginas
...passages of his Principles of Morals and Legislation. " Nature has placed mankind under the government " of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure. It is...for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as 1 well as to determine what we shall do. On the one ' hand, the standard of right and wrong, on the... | |
 | 1883 - 644 páginas
...least, was satisfied with the general statement, when he gives, as the first sentence of his book: —" Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. A man may pretend to abjure their empire; but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while."... | |
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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. 
