...ultimate good ; while, on the other hand, the " greatest-happiness principle" defined as "the creed which holds that actions are right in proportion as they...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness," is not primd facie bound up with the doctrine that all desires are desires of pleasure....

...tendency to produce physical good; moral evil is evil only by its tendency to producer physical evil." " Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." Here are several important defects in utilitarianism as a system of morality. First of...

...rapidly carrying philosophy intochaos. As defined elsewhere by the younger Mill, Utilitarianism is " the creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle."* But in a world ?:> full of misery as this one, where life as it is is not worth having and the possibility...

...rapidly carrying philosophy into chaos. As defined elsewhere by the younger Mill, Utilitarianism is " the creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle."* But in a world so full of misery as this one, where life as it is is not worth having and the possibility...

...of right and wrong, on which the ancient Stoic founded morality. Still more explicitly, this creed holds "that actions are right, in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, that is, pleasure and the absence of pain ; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness,...

...that actions are right because they are useful, "or fitted to gain ends generally desired."— CFV " The creed which accepts, as the foundation of morals,...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain and the...

...morality which find expression in the conscience are the generalizations of reason. Utilitarians hold " that actions are right in proportion as they tend...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." l The enjoyment of pleasure and the negation of pain intended by happiness, has reference,...

...According to the latter, right and wrong are questions of observation and experience, actions " being right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." There is no room here for the recognition of any original quality iu actions apart from...

...by doing so they can hope to contribute anything towards rescuing it from this utter degradation.* The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals,...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By * The author of this essay has reason for believing himself to be the first person who...

...ends generally desired."—CFV " The creed which accepts, as the foundation of morals, utilit} r , or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain arid the...