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...principle * of utility is is meant that principle which approves or difapproves of every aftion whatfoevcr, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminifh the happinefs of the party whofe intereft ii in queilion : or, what is the fame thing in other...

...light.' — Bentham's Principles of Morals and Legislation, ch. i. ' By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question.' — Ibid. ' Je regarde 1'amour delaire' de nous-memes comme le principe de tout sacrifice morale.'...

...acceptance, that might otherwise have been given, to this principle. the principle * of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every...action whatsoever, according to the tendency which what. it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question...

...acceptance, that might otherwise have been given, to this principle. the principle* of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every...action whatsoever, according to the tendency which whalit appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question...

...Morals and Legislation : — " By the principle of utility," (says the author of that work), " I mean that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question ; and not only of every action of a private individual, but of every measure of government."1 To make...

...Morals and Legislation : — " By the principle of utility," (says the author of that work), " Г maan that principle which approves or disapproves of every...happiness of the party whose interest is in question ; and not only of every action of a private individual, but of every measure of government."1 To make...

...we now give in his own words :-— THE PRINCIPLE OF UTILITY. By the principle of utility, is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every...what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness. I say of every action whatsoever ; and therefore not only of every action...

...I mean that principle, which, like the principle of utility, approves or disapproves of any action, according to the tendency which it appears to have...happiness of the party whose interest is in question ; but in an inversive manner : approving of actions in as far as they tend to diminish his happiness...