...thy view : If pains must come, let them extend to few." 1 n., chap. xvii, p. 313. 8 Deontology. mote happiness ; wrong, as they tend to produce the reverse...of pain; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure.1 Some kinds of pleasure, however, are more desirable and more valuable than others. Of two...

...1806-1873. Utilitarianism, 1861. See also Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind, by James Mill. mote happiness ; wrong, as they tend to produce the reverse...of pain; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure.1 Some kinds of pleasure, however, are more desirable and more valuable than others. Of two...

...the whole, pleasurable condition of life. The definition of JS Mill ( Utilitarianism, cbap. ii)—' by happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain and the absence of pleasure '—expresses the ordinary acceptation of the term in English, and of its equivalents...

...the basis of a scheme of social ethics. This is how he formulates the principle of Utilitarianism : " The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals...is intended pleasure and the absence of pain ; by unhappiuess pain and the privation of pleasure " ( Utilitarianism, p. 9). We are not told whether it...

...the right as the agreeable, or, to use the very precise and definite language of John Stuart Mill, " Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...by unhappiness pain and the privation of pleasure." l A sentence like this is quite without significance until the terms " pleasure " and "happiness" be...

...misery, which is the opposite of happiness, as the sum of the pains. With these conceptions Mill says, " Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." In other words, an action is right or wrong according to its fitness to advance or to retard the happiness...

...opposite of happiness, as the sum of the pains. With these conceptions Mill says, " Actions are right iu proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." In other words, an action is right or wrong according to its fitness to advance or to retard the happiness...

...calls the principle of utility the "greatest happiness principle"40 since according to the principle "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." (Mill 347) Happiness is understood in terms of pleasure and the absence of pain. But for Mill, as for...

...for right action as well. In his essay Mill's first formulation of the creed of utilitarianism is: "that actions are right in proportion as they tend...happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness."10 This initial formulation should not be taken out of context as Mill's definitive statement...

...of man as a social being Mill does of course accept Bentham's maxim that actions are to be viewed as "right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness,...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness" (Mill 1861, p. 394). The question then centers on the extent to which this utilitarian maxim is adequate...