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CHAPTER II. THE STANDARD OF MORALS.?(Continued.) " My country is
the world, My countrymen are mankind."?W. L. Garrison. (r.) The
Method of Determining Right Action. The highest criterion of moral
action is not the greatest happiness of the smaller number, which
indeed has often been the ruling principle of political law-givers,
nor is it the greatest happiness of the greatest number in the
sense of the majority without regard for the happiness of the
minority, but it is the universal welfare, the enduring happiness
of all. Actions are right or not, according as they advance or
retard the general welfare. But is it then so easy to calculate the
consequence of conduct upon human weal and woe ? How difficult it
is for us to determine the influence of a given act even on our own
life's happiness, how often it is entirely impossible; and now it
is demanded of us to determine the consequences of our conduct upon
the well-being of all Bentham requires that, in order to determine
the worth of an action, we should make out what the intensity of
the pleasure and pain is which it produces; what the duration of
these is; how great the certainty and uncertainty that such
feelings will actually be brought forth by the action; what the
fruit- fulness of these feelings is, that is, what the chances are
that they will awaken future feelings of the same kind?pleasures
when the feeling is one of pleasure, pain when it is a feeling of
pain; what the purity of these feelings is, that is, what the
chances are that feelings of an opposite nature will not set in as
a consequenceof them: pain if they were pleasant, pleasure if they
were painful; lastly, what the extent of the feelings is, that is,
what the number of persons is whose feelings of pleasure or pain
the act influences. In re...
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Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
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have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
Authored By D. G. Ritchie, G. H. Perris, J. R. MacDonald, J. A.
Hobson, J. H. Muirhead, Zona Vallance, F. J. Gould, Margaret
McMillan, Adamson Christian Collin And Stanton Coit.
Authored By D. G. Ritchie, G. H. Perris, J. R. MacDonald, J. A.
Hobson, J. H. Muirhead, Zona Vallance, F. J. Gould, Margaret
McMillan, Adamson Christian Collin And Stanton Coit.
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