 | Edmund Burke - 1880 - 702 pages
...establishment he looks forward, not only to ascertain results, but to explain and predict them ; " to deduce from the laws of life and the conditions...necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to unhappiness. " Rational utilitarianism " does not take welfare for its immediate object of pursuit,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 120 pages
...empirical generalizations from the observed results of conduct, and completely attainable only by deducing, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence,...happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. With the exception of the word ' necessarily,' I have no dissent to express from this doctrine ; and... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 108 pages
...empirical generalizations from the observed results of conduct, and completely attainable only by deducing, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence,...happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. With the exception of the by no means applied or held applicable universally; on the contrary, as I... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 406 pages
...empirical generalizations from the observed results of conduct, and completely attainable only by deducing, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence,...happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. With the exception of the word "necessarily," I have no dissent to express from this doctrine; and... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1865 - 382 pages
...he proceeds to say that he thinks the end of morality is "completely attainable, only by deducing, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence,...happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness." Upon that you observe as follows:—" With the exception of the word necessarily, I have no dissent... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1865 - 394 pages
...he proceeds to say that he thinks the end of morality is " completely attainable, only by deducing, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence,...happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness." Upon that you observe as follows : — " With the exception of the word necessarily, I have no dissent... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1865 - 380 pages
...he proceeds to say that he thinks the end of morality is " completely attainable, only by deducing, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence,...action necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinda to produce unhappiness." Upon that you observe as follows : — " With the exception of the word... | |
 | 1893 - 464 pages
...general principles from which he proceeds. Mr. Spencer affirms that it is the business of Moral Science to deduce from the laws of life and the conditions of existence what kinds of actions tend to produce happiness and what kinds to produce uuhappiness. An examination of his books,... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1868 - 904 pages
...consequences of the constitution of things ; and I conceive it to be the business of Moral Science to deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions...unhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are to be recognized as laws of conduct ; and are to be conformed to irrespective of a direct estimation of happiuess... | |
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I conceive it to be the business of Moral Science to deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence, what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are... 
