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An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Dodo Press) Jeremy Bentham No preview available - 2008 |
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation Jeremy Bentham No preview available - 2015 |
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation Jeremy Bentham No preview available - 2018 |
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action antipathetic appear applied ascer B. I. tit belong benevolence biases called ciple circum circumstances cloth common commonly condition connexions consequences considered corresponds deemed degree denominated elements desire of amity dictates disposition distinguished effects exciting cause false consciousness former good-will happen happiness incident influence instance intention interest jurisprudence kind legislator lence less love of reputation man's matter means ment mind mischief moral sanction nature neutral sense nexion objects occasion offences pain and pleasure pains of privation particular party pathy pecuniary perhaps person pleasure or pain pleasures and pains positive pains present principle of asceticism principle of utility produced punishment quantity question radical frame Ravaillac regard religion respect seems self-regarding sensibility sort of motive stances strength styled supposed tendency termed thing tion tive Tomi trust tutelary motives Tyrrel unconformable vidual word wrong
Popular passages
Page 1 - ... 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 fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.
Page 2 - 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.
Page 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...
Page 3 - The community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting as it were its members. The interest of the community then is— what? The sum of the interests of the several members who compose it.
Page 31 - Of the value of each pain which appears to be produced by it in the first instance. 3. Of the value of each pleasure which appears to be produced by it after the first. This constitutes the fecundity of the first pleasure and the impurity of the first pain. 4. Of the value of each pain which appears to be produced by it after the first.
Page 16 - What one expects to find in a principle is something that points out some external consideration, as a means of warranting and guiding the internal sentiments of approbation and disapprobation: this expectation is but ill fulfilled by a proposition, which does neither more nor less than hold up each of those sentiments as a ground and standard for itself.
Page 1 - 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. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne.
Page 31 - It is not to be expected that this process should be strictly pursued previously to every moral judgment, or to every legislative or judicial operation. It may, however, be always kept in view: and as near as the process actually pursued on these occasions approaches to it, so near will such process approach to the character of an exact one.
Page 309 - The death they suffer in our hands commonly is, and always may be, a speedier, and by that means a less painful one, than that which would await them in the inevitable course of nature.
Page 3 - A thing is said to promote the interest, or to be for the interest, of an individual, when it tends to add to the sum total of his pleasures : or, what comes to the same thing, to diminish the sum total of his pains.