 | 1887 - 340 páginas
...words, contained in a letter to Mr. Mill : — " I conceive it to be the business of moral science to deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence, what hinds of actions necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. Having... | |
 | 1879 - 652 páginas
...amount of happiness or misery. He tells us, however, " I conceive it to be the business of moral science to deduce from the laws of life and the conditions...unhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are to be recognized as laws of conduct." We will look with interest to his promised work, the " Principles of... | |
 | 1879 - 610 páginas
...treatises by Mr. JS Mill and Mr. Bain is, that in Mr. Spencer's view it is the business of Moral Science to deduce from the laws of life and the conditions...kinds to produce unhappiness. " Having done this," he says, " its deductions are to be recognized as laws of conduct, and are to be conformed to irrespective... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1879 - 322 páginas
...consequences of the constitution of things ; and I conceive it to be the business of Moral Science to deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions...tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce nnhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are to be recognized as laws of conduct ; and are to... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1879 - 312 páginas
...consequences of the constitution of things ; and I conceive it to be the business of Moral . Science to deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions...tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce nnhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are to be recognized as laws of conduct ; and are to... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1879 - 288 páginas
...generalizations from the observed results of conduct, and completely attainable only by deducting, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence,...happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. With the exception of the word *' necessarily,'' I have no dissent to express from this doctrine; and... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1879 - 320 páginas
...happiness, and what kinds to produce nnhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are to be recognized as \ laws of conduct ; and are to be conformed to irrespective of a direct estimation 1 of happiness or misery. 1 Perhaps an analogy will most clearly show my meaning. •During its early... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1880 - 712 páginas
...establishment he looks forward, not only to ascertain results, but to explain and predict them ; " to deduce from the laws of life and the conditions...necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to unhappiness. " Rational utilitarianism "does not take welfare for its immediate object of pursuit,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1880 - 692 páginas
...establishment he looks forward, not only to ascertain results, but to explain and predict them ; " to deduce from the laws of life and the conditions...necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to unhappinesa. " Rational utilitarianism ' ' does not take welfare for its immediate object of pursuit,... | |
 | Jacob Gould Schurman - 1881 - 128 páginas
...consequences of the constitution of things ; and I conceive it to be the business of Moral Science to deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions...happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness."* That the science thus sketched in outline would, when realized, be useful, there can be no doubt whatever.... | |
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I conceive it to be the business of Moral Science to deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence, what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are... 
