 | Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - 1907 - 396 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... | |
 | Gordon Graham - 2004 - 240 páginas
...Bentham believed, as he tells us in his Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation that 'nature has placed mankind under the governance of...ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do (Bentham 1789, 1960: 125). Accordingly, the way to construct successful social institutions, ie institutions... | |
 | Robert A. Bowie - 2004 - 356 páginas
...by pleasure and pain, and so he can be called a hedonist (hedone is Greek for 'pleasure'). He said, 'Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.' (Bentham, 1789, Chapter I, I) Bentham believed that all human beings pursued pleasure and sought to... | |
 | Maureen Ramsay - 2004 - 292 páginas
...only to be self-evident, because it was rooted in human psychology, but also to be morally justified: 'Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do' (Bentham, 1967, p. 125). If all human action and behaviour is motivated by selfinterested desires,... | |
 | Volker Kunz - 2004 - 180 páginas
...Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation in Form einer Lust-Unlust-Skalierung beschrieben hat: »Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do . . . They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw... | |
 | Anthony Reading - 2004 - 260 páginas
...all right, and disagreeable ones, which signal that something is wrong. Bentham (1789) observed that "nature has placed mankind under the governance of...ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.'"2 Our emotions convey information about changes in our relationship with the external environment.... | |
 | Robert A. Bowie - 2004 - 140 páginas
...rules about acts we can or cannot do. • Human beings seek pleasure and try to avoid pain: TSIature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign...to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.' • Bentham was a hedonist in believing that pleasure is the only good and pain the only evil ('hedone'... | |
 | Erik S. Reinert - 2007 - 352 páginas
...hedonism, exemplified in this quotation from Jeremy Bentham ( l 780, p. ll): Nature has placed Man under two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for...alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as determine what we shall not do. ... [E]very effort we make to throw off our subjugation, will serve... | |
 | John Rowland Dinwiddy, William L. Twining - 2004 - 220 páginas
...Principles of Morals and Legislation, begins with some arresting but somewhat misleading sentences: Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard... | |
 | John Rowland Dinwiddy, William L. Twining - 2004 - 220 páginas
...Principles of Morals and Legislation, begins with some arresting but somewhat misleading sentences: Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard... | |
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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. 
