 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1902 - 254 pages
...Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign motives — pain and pleasure — and it is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as what we should do." By should, he apparently means what we are constrained to do by our intellectual... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1902 - 238 pages
...Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign motives — pain and pleasure — and it is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as what we should do." By should, he apparently means • • • *» • » " what weaver con strained... | |
 | Andrew Martin Fairbairn - 1902 - 626 pages
...the judgment of society expressed as self-judgment. Jeremy Bentham put the matter in a franker way. "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure." They tell us " what we ought to do, as well as determine what we shall do." To their throne the standard... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1903 - 336 pages
...was satisfied with the general statement, when he gives, as the first sentence of his book : — " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. A man may pretend to abjure their empire ; but, in reality, he will remain subject to it all the while."... | |
 | Theodor Gomperz - 1908 - 666 pages
...2, Z. 8 ff.) Hier mag wenigstens eine Anführung aus Bentham Pi*"' finden (Works ed. Bowriug I 1): Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure .... In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire, but in reality he will remain subject to it... | |
 | William Warrand Carlile - 1904 - 318 pages
...too grand and too full of truth to be omitted, that " Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters — pain and pleasure. It...ought to do as well as to determine what we shall do. . . . They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think." * We know that this theory, in... | |
 | Theodor Gomperz - 1905 - 410 pages
...will be an appropriate place for at least one quotation from Bentham (Works, ed. Bowring, i. l) : " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. . . In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire, but in reality he will remain subject to it... | |
 | Theodor Gomperz - 1905 - 414 pages
...will be an appropriate place for at least one quotation from Bentham (Works, ed. Bowring, i. i) : " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. . . In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire, but in reality he will remain subject to it... | |
 | 1902 - 396 pages
...connection that it will require but a few citations to recall them perfectly to all. "Nature," says Bentham, "has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign...ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do."t The gist of the theory is in his " memoriter " verses : t "Intense, long, certain, speedy, fruitful,... | |
 | James MacKaye - 1906 - 556 pages
...Bentham held this view. He opens his essay on the Principles of Morals and Legislation as follows: " 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. On... | |
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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. 
