 | Bible - 1866 - 726 pages
...standard of what is right in conduct is not the agent's own happiness, but that of all concerned. Aa, between his own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism...read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility." — p. 322. That the notion of utility underlies all sacrifice is strongly asserted : " It is noble... | |
 | Theology - 1866 - 778 pages
...others, utilitarianism requires lib to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent jpwtaCT In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility." — p. 322. That the notion of utility underlies all sacrifice is strongly asserted : " It is noble... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism - 1867 - 132 pages
...to them, as either to the Stoic or to the Transcendentalist. The utilitarian morality does recognise in human beings the power of sacrificing their own...complete spirit of the ethics of utility. To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1868 - 670 pages
...not the agent's own, but that of all concerned. As between his own and that of others, he is required to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and...complete spirit of the ethics of utility — to do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of *... | |
 | Philosophy - 1868 - 612 pages
...happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested an benevolent spectator. In the golden rule of Jesus...complete spirit of the ethics of utility. To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbourg as oneself, conslitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1869 - 526 pages
...to the sexual appetite ' (JF Stephen On the Criminal Law of England, p. 09). Mr. Mill observes that, 'In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility ' ( Utilitarianism, p. 24). It is but fair to give a specimen of the opposite order of extravagance.... | |
 | John Grote - Philosophy - 1870 - 396 pages
...utilitarian standard of what is right in conduct, is not the agent's own happiness, but the happiness of all concerned. As between his own happiness and...utility. To do as you would be done by, and to love your neighbour as yourself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.' But this Now here... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism - 1871 - 136 pages
...tend to increase, the sum total of happiness, it considers as fwasted. The only self-reni*nciation which it applauds, is devotion to the happiness, or...complete spirit of the ethics of utility. To .do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitutethe ideal perfection of utilitarian... | |
 | Criticism - 1873 - 808 pages
...i, p. 388). No one has repudiated the selfish system more heartily than he. " As between the agent's own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires...neighbor as yourself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarianism" (Vol. iii, p. 347). The aim is the noblest possible, and we believe that no ethical... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1873 - 958 pages
...i, p. 388). No one has repudiated the selfish system more heartily than he. " As between the agent's own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires...neighbor as yourself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarianism " (Vol. iii, p. 347). The aim is the noblest possible, and we believe that no ethical... | |
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I must again repeat what the assailants of utilitarianism seldom have the justice to acknowledge, that the happiness which forms the utilitarian standard of what is right in conduct is not the agent's own happiness but that of all concerned. As between... 
