 | Questions and answers - 1897 - 1138 pages
...Moralist»,' 1897, L 107, from Hntobeson, ' Moral Good and Evil,' edit. 1726, sect. iii. chap. ix. : " That Action is best, which procures the greatest Happiness for the greatest Numbers [sic], and that, worst, which, in like manner, occasions Misery." The first edition of the ' Inquiry... | |
 | Georg von Gizycki - Ethics - 1878 - 390 pages
...II. sect. 5. §. 2. p. 226. 3 Inquiry. pp. 190, 204; vgl. System of Moral Philosophy. /., 1. §. 8. 3 That action is best, which procures THE GREATEST HAPPINESS FOR THE GREATEST NUMBERS: and that warst, which, in like manner, occasions misery. (Inquiry. II. sect. 3. §. 8. p. 184 f.) : eine... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations, English - 1878 - 896 pages
...this." — Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride. Ch. xxiv. Greatest happiness of the greatest number. LThat action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. Hutcheson's Inquiry : Concerning Aloral Good and Evil. Sec. 3. (1720.) Priestley was the first (unless... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1881 - 892 pages
...aware of this." — Plutarch, De Isideet Osiride. Ch. xxiv. Greatest happiness of the greatest number. That action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. Hutcheson's Inquiry: Concerning Moral Good and Evil. Sec. 3. (1720.) Priestley was the first (unless... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...pierce the ether's high unknown dominions, To reach new spheres of pure activity, z. GOETHE— Faust. 8b y. HuTCHisBON— Inquiry ; Concerning Moral Good' and Ecu. Seo. 3. ACTION. ADVEESITY. Attack is the... | |
 | Philosophy - 1882 - 528 pages
...Princip in fast wörtlicher Uebereinstimmung mit Bentham formulirt (Inqniiy, 1725, II, sect. 3, § 8: that action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers). Nicht in der Aufstellung des „principle of Utility" (welches Helve'tius von Hume übernahm) liegt... | |
 | Philosophy - 1882 - 528 pages
...Princip in fast wörtlicher Uebereinstimmung mit Bentham formulirt (Inquiry, 1725, II, sect. 3, § 8: that action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers). Nicht in der Aufstellung des „principle of Utility" (welches Helvetius von Hume übernahm) liegt... | |
 | Philosophy - 1882 - 544 pages
...Princip in fast wörtlicher Uebereinstimmung mit Beutham formulirt (Inquhy, 1725, II, sect. 3, § 8 : that action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers). Nicht in der Aufstellung des „principle of utility" (welches Helve'tius von Hume übernahm) liegt... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - American literature - 1883 - 302 pages
...Robert J. Burdette, "Burlington Hawkeye Man." Samuel W. Small, " Old Si." GEMS OF THOUGHT. ACTION. THAT action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. HUTCHINSOH. I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreter* of their thoughts. LOCKE.... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...his mallem ludos spcctasse. — Horace, Sat. ii. 8. 79. Greatest happiness of the greatest numlx?r. That action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. — Hutcheson's Inquiry : Concfrnintj \fornl Good and Evil, Stc. 3. 1720. Priestley was the first (unless... | |
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... that action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers; and that worst, which in like manner occasions misery. 
