The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...W. Tait, 1838 |
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action antipathy appear appellatives applied asceticism Author belong Bentham branch cause cerned character circumstances condition consequences considered constituted corresponding danger degree desire disposition DYSLOGISTIC effect English law eulogistic evil favour force give given happiness House of Commons House of Lords idea individual influence instance intention interest John Lind jurisprudence kind lative legislator less Lord Camden Lord Mansfield Lord Shelburne mala in se man's manner matter means ment mind mischief Montesquieu moral motive nations nature necessary object occasion offences operate particular party pathy penal perhaps person PLEASURES AND PAINS political possession prejudice present principle of utility produced punishment question racter reason regard religion render respect sanction self-regarding sense sensibility sort speak species spect styled supposed tendency termed thing tical tion tive trust vidual whole word wrongful
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Página 1 - By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness.
Página 2 - By utility is meant that property in any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness (all this in the present case comes to the same thing) or (what comes again to the same thing) to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil, or unhappiness to the party whose interest is considered...
Página 143 - The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor.
Página 1 - ... can make to throw off our subjection will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire, but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while. The principle of utility...
Página 261 - Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be a 'rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong.
Página 154 - That there are certain natural rights of which men, when they form a social compact cannot deprive or divest their posterity, among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Página 143 - What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason, or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a fullgrown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or a week or even a month, old. But suppose they were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
Página 1 - ... states the greatest happiness of all those whose interest is in question, as being the right and proper, and only right and proper and universally desirable, end of human action...
Página 8 - One man says, he has a thing made on purpose to tell him what is right and what is wrong; and that it is called a moral sense: and then he goes to work at his ease, and says, such a thing is right, and such a thing is wrong — why ? " because my moral sense tells me it is.
Página 16 - Sum up the numbers expressive of the degrees of good tendency, which the act has with respect to each individual, in regard to whom the tendency of it is good upon the whole : do this again with respect to each individual, in regard to whom the tendency of it is bad upon the whole. Take the balance ; which, if on the side of pleasure, will give the general good tendency of the act, with respect to the total number or community of individuals concerned ; if on the side of pain, the general evil tendency,...