 | John Shertzer Hittell - 1888 - 58 pages
...of all your actions must be to please yourself. ' ' Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters pain and pleasure. It is...ought to do as well as to determine what we shall do. ' ' (£)* Conceptions of pleasure, especially when influenced by expectations of reward or punishment... | |
 | Ludwig Stein, Arthur Stein - 1896 - 578 pages
...words: „Nature has placed mankind under the guidance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on...of causes and effects are fastened to their throne" (Principles, of Morals and Legislation, chap. 1). 10) No better evidence of its genuineness could be... | |
 | James Frederick Ferrier - 1888 - 744 pages
...Jeremy Bentham, " has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pleasure and pain. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do." Whether, and in what sense, pleasure and pain may be said to be the two sovereign masters of mankind... | |
 | 1888 - 632 pages
...pain govern the world," Bentham tells us. "It is for these two sovereign masters alone," he insists, "to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do." Well, surely the pleasure and pain which come home to the individual are his individual pleasure and... | |
 | 1888 - 1004 pages
...pain govern the world," Bentham tells us. "It is for these two sovereign masters alone," he insists, "to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do." * Well, surely the pleasure and pain which come home to the individual are his individual pleasure... | |
 | James Martineau - 1890 - 714 pages
...claim any advantage over another, except on the score of happier effects. " Nature," says Bentham, " has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign...causes and effects, are fastened to their throne."* " There is in reality," says Mr. JS Mill, " nothing desired except happiness. Whatever is desired otherwise... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1890 - 36 pages
...larger work of John Stuart Mill. UTILITARIANISM, CHAPTER I. OP THE PRINCIPLE OP UTILITY. I. NATTJUE has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign...right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects,are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think :... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1890 - 508 pages
...homme ne prend dans ses jugemer.ts conseil que de soninteret.' — HelvetiusZtefis^jriC, disoours ii. 'Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. . . . The principle of utility recognises this subjection, and astumes it for the foundation of that... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1890 - 368 pages
...govern the world," Bentham tells us. " It is for these two sovereign masters alone," he insists, " to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do."* Well, but surely, the pleasure and pain which come home to the individual, are his individual pleasure... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1891 - 576 pages
...abolished, ' must ' reigns without restriction ; for it is the same writer who magisterially asserts that ' Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of cause and effect, are fastened to their throne.' \ Finally, with the conviction that he is uttering... | |
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Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. 
