 | James Frederick Ferrier - Philosophy - 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... | |
 | Universalism - 1888 - 538 pages
...can or could have," says Bentham, " a motive different from the pursuit of pleasure or shunning pain* It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of cause and effect,... | |
 | Choice literature - 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... | |
 | Literature - 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... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - Logic - 1890 - 346 pages
...theories. In his uncompromising style he tells us - that 'Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is...what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1890 - 508 pages
...soninteret.' — HelvetiusZtefis^jriC, disoours ii. 'Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is...what we 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... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - Utilitarianism - 1890 - 36 pages
...UTILITARIANISM, CHAPTER I. OF THE PRINCIPLE OF UTILITY. I. NATTJBE has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is...what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - Ethics - 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1891 - 576 pages
...is the same writer who magisterially asserts that ' Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is...what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of cause and effect,... | |
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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. 
