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" Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. "
Conceptions of Institutions and the Theory of Knowledge: 2nd Ed. - Página 157
por Stanley Taylor - 1989 - 223 páginas
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On Right and Wrong

William Samuel Lilly - 1890 - 368 páginas
...govern the world," Bentham tells us. " It is for these two sovereign masters alone," he insists, " to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do."* Well, but surely, the pleasure and pain which come home to the individual, are his individual pleasure...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 172

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1891 - 576 páginas
...has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of cause and effect, are fastened...
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History of European Morals: From Augustus to Charlemagne, Volume 1

William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1891 - 506 páginas
...placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alon« to point out what we ought to do as well as to determine what we shall do. . . . The principle of utility recognises this subjection, and assumes it for the foundation of that...
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Philosophy and Political Economy in Some of Their Historical Relations

James Bonar - 1893 - 438 páginas
...has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pleasure and pain. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do " (Clar. Press ed., p. 1). A man's actions result from his calculation of the balance of consequences...
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Philosophy and Political Economy in Some of Their Historical Relations

James Bonar - 1893 - 440 páginas
...has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pleasure and pain. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do " (Clar. Press ed., p. 1). A man's actions result from his calculation of the balance of consequences...
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Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and ...

Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 páginas
...has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand, the standard of right and wrong ; on the other, the chain of causes and effects, are...
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History of the Christian Church, Volume 5

Henry Clay Sheldon - 1894 - 460 páginas
...mankind," he says, " under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them to point out what •we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand, the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects are...
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The Elements of Ethics

James Hervey Hyslop - 1895 - 492 páginas
...has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand, the standard of right and wrong, on the other, the chain of causes and effects, are...
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The Journal of Political Economy, Volume 4

1896 - 608 páginas
...has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign I masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. . . . They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think ; every effort we can make to throw...
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James Martineau: A Biography and Study

Abraham Willard Jackson - 1900 - 516 páginas
...has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are...
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