 That principle is a mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person's happiness, supposed equal in degree (with the proper allowance made for kind), is counted for exactly as much as another's. Those conditions heing supplied, Bentham's...  Works - Sida 39efter Herbert Spencer - 1891Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Stuart Mill - 1867 - 132 sidor
...the very meaning of Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle. That principle is a mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person's...for exactly as much as another's. Those conditions heing supplied, Bentham's dictum, ' everybody to count for one, nobody for more than one,' might be... | |
 | 1870 - 688 sidor
...rears upon them. Mr. Mill writes as follows : " The Greatest- Happiness Principle is a mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person's...kind), is counted for exactly as much as another's. These conditions being supplied, Bentham's dictum, ' everybody to count for oue, nobody for more than... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1873 - 410 sidor
...the very meaning of Utility, or the Greatest-happiness Principle. That principle is a mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person's...much as another's. Those conditions being supplied, Hentham's dictum, " Everybody to count for one, nobody for more than one," might be written under the... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1873 - 408 sidor
...the very meaning of Utility, or the Greatest-happiness Principle. That principle is a mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person's...allowance made for kind), is counted for exactly as much aa another's. Those conditions being supplied, Bentham's dictum, " Everybody to count for one, nobody... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1873 - 360 sidor
...ideal perfection of utilitarian morality. . . . The greatesthappiness principle ... is a mere form of words without rational signification unless one person's...supposed equal in degree (with the proper allowance for kind) is counted for exactly as much as another's. Those conditions being supplied, Bentham's dictum,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1874 - 404 sidor
...the very meaning of Utility, or the Greatest-happiness Principle. That principle is a mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person's happiness, supposed equal in degree (with f~ ' the proper allowance made for kind) , is counted for exactly as much as another's. Those conditioQS_being... | |
 | 1880 - 616 sidor
...the quotation that he himself makes from Mill. ' The Greatest Happiness Principle is a mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person's...kind), is counted for exactly as much as another's.' Mr. Spencer goes on to maintain that it would be absurd to divide equally " the concrete means to happiness"... | |
 | Exile from France - 1876 - 472 sidor
...constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality. The greatest happiness principle is a mere form of words, without rational signification, unless one person's happiness, supposed equal in degree, is counted for exactly as much as another's. Those conditions being supplied, Bentham's dictum, " Everybody... | |
 | An exile from France - 1876 - 466 sidor
...constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality. The greatest happiness principle is a mere form of words, without rational signification, unless one person's happiness, supposed equal in degree, is counted for exactly as much as another's. Those conditions being supplied, Bentham's dictum, " Everybody... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1879 - 312 sidor
...mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person's happiness, supposed equal iu degree (with the proper allowance made for kind),...nobody for more than one," might be written under ihe principle of utility as an explanatory commentary" (p. 91.) Now though the meaning of "greatest... | |
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