 | Edmund Burke - 1880 - Liczba stron: 702
...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,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - Liczba stron: 120
...empirical generalizations from the observed results of conduct, and completely attainable only by deducing, 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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - Liczba stron: 406
...empirical generalizations from the observed results of conduct, and completely attainable only by deducing, 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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - Liczba stron: 108
...empirical generalizations from the observed results of conduct, and completely attainable only by deducing, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence,...happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. With the exception of the by no means applied or held applicable universally; on the contrary, as I... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1865 - Liczba stron: 394
...he proceeds to say that he thinks the end of morality is " completely attainable, only by deducing, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence,...happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness." Upon that you observe as follows : — " With the exception of the word necessarily, I have no dissent... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1865 - Liczba stron: 382
...he proceeds to say that he thinks the end of morality is "completely attainable, only by deducing, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence,...happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness." Upon that you observe as follows:—" With the exception of the word necessarily, I have no dissent... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1865 - Liczba stron: 380
...he proceeds to say that he thinks the end of morality is " completely attainable, only by deducing, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence,...action necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinda to produce unhappiness." Upon that you observe as follows : — " With the exception of the word... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1868 - Liczba stron: 902
...for which I contend is, that Morality properly so called — the science of right conduct — has tor its object to determine how and why certain modes...tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiaess. Having done this, its deductions are to be recognized as laws of conduct ; and are to... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1869 - Liczba stron: 350
...of conduct nothing more than its empirical generalizations. ' But the view for which I contend is, that Morality properly so called — the science of...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... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1869 - Liczba stron: 364
...than its empirical generalizations. ' But the view for which I contend is, that Morality prw^perly so called — the science of right conduct — has...tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiaess. Having done this, its deductions uro to be recognized as laws of conduct ; and are to... | |
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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 to... 
