 | Abraham Willard Jackson - 1900 - 516 páginas
...a desire for exemption from a bitterer pain. This is Bentham's doctrine. " Nature," he tells us, " has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign...causes and effects, are fastened to their throne." 1 John Stuart Mill also tells us that " happiness is the sole end of human action, and the promotion... | |
 | Abraham Willard Jackson - 1900 - 498 páginas
...a desire for exemption from a bitterer pain. This is Bentham's doctrine. " Nature," he tells us, " has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign...causes and effects, are fastened to their throne." * John Stuart Mill also tells us that " happiness is the sole end of human action, and the promotion... | |
 | Frank Thilly - 1900 - 368 páginas
...the world to come." 1 (5) Jeremy Bentham's2 statements on this point are not more radical. He says : "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do."3 "Conscience is a thing of fictitious existence supposed to occupy a seat in the mind."4 Conscience... | |
 | Frank Thilly - 1900 - 374 páginas
...the world to come." J (5) Jeremy Bentham's2 statements on this point are not more radical. He says : "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do."3 "Conscience is a thing of fictitious existence supposed to occupy a seat in the mind."4 Conscience... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1900 - 542 páginas
...Bentham against Whewell, and his Utilitarianism starts essentially from Bentham's famous saying, ' Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.' Happiness, says Mill, is the ' sole end of human- action ' ; to ' desire ' is to find a thing pleasant... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1901 - 662 páginas
...of actions •which have a contrary tendency. This is solved by an appeal to the universal motive. ' Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.' The legislator, therefore, must annex pains or pleasures to those classes of actions which he wishes... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1901 - 664 páginas
...discouragement of actions which have a contrary tendency. This is solved by an appeal to the universal motive. ' Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.' The legislator, therefore, must annex pains or pleasures to those classes of actions which he wishes... | |
 | Oskar Kraus - 1901 - 162 páginas
...or of exemption from pain in some shap can operate in the character of a motive, W. I, 46. Ferner: Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...ought to do as well as to determine what we shall do. W. I Principles. weise der Liebbarkeit zu dem der Liebenswürdigkeit anderer Objekte ausscr der Lust... | |
 | Alfred Taylor Schofield - 1901 - 264 páginas
...their position as influencing character Bentham says : " Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure. It is...to do, as well as to determine what we shall do." But then we must remember Bentham was a great sensationalist, a modern Epicurean in principle, though... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1901 - 676 páginas
...the universal motive. * Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, paiu and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what...to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.' The legislator, therefore, must annex pains or pleasures to those classes of actions which he wishes... | |
| |
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. 
