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... Actions , Intentionality , Consciousness , Motives , Dispositions , Consequences . Even in the enormous chapter on the division of offences , which , notwith- standing the forced compression the plan has under- gone in several of its ...
... Actions , Intentionality , Consciousness , Motives , Dispositions , Consequences . Even in the enormous chapter on the division of offences , which , notwith- standing the forced compression the plan has under- gone in several of its ...
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... action conformable to the principle of utility , what ..... A measure of government conformable to the principle of utility , what Laws or dictates of utility , what A partisan of the principle of utitity , who ....... Ought , ought not ...
... action conformable to the principle of utility , what ..... A measure of government conformable to the principle of utility , what Laws or dictates of utility , what A partisan of the principle of utitity , who ....... Ought , ought not ...
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... actions it dictates be ever so right , is never of itself a right ground of action ib . CHAP . III . Of the four Sanctions or Sources xviii CONTENTS .
... actions it dictates be ever so right , is never of itself a right ground of action ib . CHAP . III . Of the four Sanctions or Sources xviii CONTENTS .
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... Actions in general . The demand for punishment depends in part upon the tendency of the act ....... Tendency of an ... action are to be considered , 1. The act . 2. The circum- stances . 3. The intentionality . 4. The consciousness . 5 ...
... Actions in general . The demand for punishment depends in part upon the tendency of the act ....... Tendency of an ... action are to be considered , 1. The act . 2. The circum- stances . 3. The intentionality . 4. The consciousness . 5 ...
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... action of human action in every situation , and in particular in that of a functionary or set of functionaries exercising the powers of Government . The word utility does not so clearly point to the ideas of pleasure and pain as the ...
... action of human action in every situation , and in particular in that of a functionary or set of functionaries exercising the powers of Government . The word utility does not so clearly point to the ideas of pleasure and pain as the ...
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Page 3 - 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 - ... 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. 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...
Page 52 - Of the value of each distinguishable pleasure 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 31 - The fairest and openest of them all is that sort of man who speaks out, and says, I am of the number of the Elect: now God himself takes care to inform the Elect what is right: and that with so good effect, that let them strive ever so, they cannot help not only knowing it but practising it.
Page 6 - Of an action that is conformable to the principle of utility one may always say either that it is one that ought to be done, or at least that it is not one that ought not to be done. One may say also, that it is right it should be done; at least that it is not wrong it should be done; that it is a right action; at least that it is not a wrong action. When thus interpreted, the words ought, and right and wrong, and others of that stamp, have a meaning: when otherwise, they have done.
Page 5 - A measure of government (which is but a particular kind of action, performed by a particular person or persons) may be said to be conformable to or dictated by the principle of utility, when in like manner the tendency which it has to augment the happiness of the community is greater than any which...
Page 169 - Now, pleasure is in itself a good : nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good: pain is in itself an evil; and, indeed, without exception, the only evil; or else the words good and evil have no meaning.
Page 27 - 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 29 - 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.
Page 4 - 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.