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...principle * of utility is is meant that principle which approves or difapproves of every aftion whatfoevcr, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminifh the happinefs of the party whofe intereft ii in queilion : or, what is the fame thing in other...

...reason, in darkness instead of light.' — Bentham's Principles of Morals and Legislation, ch. i. ' By the principle of utility is meant that principle which...happiness of the party whose interest is in question.' — Ibid. ' Je regarde 1'amour delaire' de nous-memes comme le principe de tout sacrifice morale.'...

...much efficiency, as a bar to the acceptance, that might otherwise have been given, to this principle. the principle * of utility is meant that principle...action whatsoever, according to the tendency which what. it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question...

...much efficiency, as a bar to the acceptance, that might otherwise have been given, to this principle. the principle* of utility is meant that principle...action whatsoever, according to the tendency which whalit appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question...

...Morals and Legislation : — " By the principle of utility," (says the author of that work), " I mean that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question ; and not only of every action of a private individual, but of every measure of government."1 To make...

...Morals and Legislation : — " By the principle of utility," (says the author of that work), " Г maan that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question ; and not only of every action of a private individual, but of every measure of government."1 To make...

...I mean that principle, which, like the principle of utility, approves or disapproves of any action, according to the tendency which it appears to have...happiness of the party whose interest is in question ; but in an inversive manner : approving of actions in as far as they tend to diminish his happiness...

...decide whether this or that is best as means of securing the desired result. Thus Bentham says : " By the principle of utility is meant that principle which...happiness of the party whose interest is in question." 1 According to Locke, " Moral good and evil is only the conformity or disagreement of our voluntary...