 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.  Elements of Ethics - Page 183by Noah Knowles Davis - 1900 - 294 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles George Herbermann - 1913 - 880 pages
...Bentham in the opening of his "Principles of Morals and Legislation" (1789): "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain...alone to point out what we ought to do as well as what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of cause... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1914 - 552 pages
...distinction is made, and ignored, in the arresting paragraph that opens the work : Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point ont what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of... | |
 | Bertrand Russell, Peter Köllner - 1996 - 954 pages
...happiness was. See the opening sentences of Chapter I of Bentham 's 178y. "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain...to do, as well as to determine what we shall do." For Mill see the second paragraph of Chapter 1v of Utilitarianism (1861): "The utilitarian doctrine... | |
 | Harry van den Berg, Margaret Wetherell, Hanneke Houtkoop-Steenstra - 2003 - 338 pages
...should not ignore this basic fact. Bentham (in Beauchamp 1991: 139) wrote, "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain...to do, as well as to determine what we shall do." This idea was not new and is, for example, central in several psychological theories of motivation... | |
 | Antonio Cassesse, Lal Chand Vohrah - 2003 - 1068 pages
...Burns, JH, and Hart, HLA, 1970) in which his famous principle of utility ("Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain...to do, as well as to determine what we shall do", p. 1 1) is applied inter alia in a consideration of various aspects of punishment. For him, "... all... | |
 | Michel Cabanac - 2003 - 316 pages
...le chapitre XII). 24. Ma traduction de : « Nature has placed mankind under the go vernance of t wo sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them...ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do [...] they govern us in ail we do, in ail we say, in ail we think. » 25. Faites-vous des amis avec... | |
 | David Seth Preston - 2003 - 222 pages
...Morals and Legislation, pleasure is good and pain is bad: "Nature has placed mankind under the govemance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is...for them alone to point out what we ought to do..." (Bentham, 19701. Jobn Stuart Mill would update this notion of utilitarianism in the next century. Mill... | |
 | Mads Qvortrup - 2003 - 162 pages
...Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, he wrote that 'nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters; pain...pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we oughtto do' (Bentham 2000: 87, italics added). The Marxists, on their part, rested their theoretical... | |
 | Samuel Gregg - 2003 - 148 pages
...gives someone pleasure, while "evil" refers to the experience of pain. "On the one hand," he wrote, "the standard of right and wrong; on the other, the chain of cause and effect, are fastened to their [pleasure and pain's] throne."13 Pleasure and pain are the... | |
 | Volker Kunz - 2004 - 180 pages
...Morals and Legislation in Form einer Lust-Unlust-Skalierung beschrieben hat: »Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain...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: every effort we can make to throw... | |
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