 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 - Page 39by Herbert Spencer - 1891Full view - About this book
 | John Stuart Mill - 1867 - 132 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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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