Quotes Tagged With :utilitarian

Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

What would yield the greater benefit to mankind: if I spent the afternoon taking stock in my dispensary,....

First premise: If we can prevent something bad without sacrificing anything of comparable significance,....

Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.

For a merely conscious being, death is the cessation of experiences, in much the same way that birth....

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds....

When we make ethical judgments, we must go beyond a personal or sectional point of view and take into....

Many of the innovations in science and philosophy have come from unbelievers, some of whom died for their....

For preference utilitarians, taking the life of a person will normally be worse than taking the life....

No doubt we instinctively prefer to help those who are close to us. Few could stand by and watch a child....