| 单词 | greatest happiness principle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreatest happiness principle greatest happiness principle n. Philosophy = principle of the greatest happiness at Phrases b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > pragmatism > [noun] > utilitarianism the greatest happiness of the greatest number1725 greatest happiness principle1822 rule of the greatest happiness1829 utilitarianism1839 1822 J. Bentham Codification Proposal 8 Reasons derived from the principle known by the name of the principle of utility: more expressly say the greatest-happiness principle. 1834 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) III. 118 But these [ascetics] too, were pursuers of the Greatest-Happiness Principle..after a sort. 1861 J. S. Mill Utilitarianism (1863) ii. 9 The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle. 1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man i. iii. 97 Philosophers of the derivative school of morals formerly assumed that the foundation of morality lay in a form of selfishness; but more recently in the ‘Greatest Happiness’ principle. 1991 Utilitas May 41 The fundamental principle of utility, or the greatest happiness principle. < as lemmas |
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