 ... pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends; and that all desirable things (which are as numerous in the utilitarian as in any other scheme) are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as means to the...  English Philosophers and Schools of Philosophy - Page 249by James Seth - 1912 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Stuart Mill - 1922 - 432 pages
...and to what extent this is left an open question. But these supplementary explanations do not aflect the theory of life on which this theory of morality...promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain. Now, such a theory of life excites in many minds, and among them in some of the most estimable in feeling... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1920 - 494 pages
...happiness is confused past remedy. We get the following series of wholly disparate dicta : — 1. " Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends; and all desirable things are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves or as means to the... | |
 | Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad - 1921 - 240 pages
...intended pleasure and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure." " Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends." When we ask the question, whose happiness and whose pain are meant, the answer is the happiness and... | |
 | George Stuart Fullerton - 1922 - 404 pages
...pleasure, and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends; and that all desirable things . . . are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in...promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain." * The pleasure here intended is not the selfish pleasure of the individual. Utilitarianism is not Cyrenaicism.... | |
 | George Stuart Fullerton - 1922 - 400 pages
...and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure." This means, he adds, " that pleasure, and freedom from pain, are the only...things desirable as ends; and that all desirable things . . . are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as means to the promotion of... | |
 | Gustavus Watts Cunningham - 1924 - 484 pages
...Pleasure, and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends; and all desirable things . . . are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in...promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain." l (2) ENERGISM. This is the theory that the end by which goodness is to be measured is the full expression... | |
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