Why, when he had demonstrated that certain measures would contribute to the 'greatest happiness of the greatest number,' were they not at once adopted?
Brougham needs a dose of jalap instead of pap, for he cannot even spell the 'greatest happiness principle' properly.
Yet it is possible to hold that witnesses should be encouraged to speak the truth, and that experience may help us to discover the best means to that end without, therefore, admitting the unique validity of the 'greatest happiness' principle.
The central doctrine is expressed in Bentham's famous formula: the test of right and wrong is the 'greatest happiness of the greatest number.
Is it selfish to renounce one's greatest happiness in order to attain only peace of conscience?
Selfishness; but more recently the "Greatest happiness principle" has been brought prominently forward.
Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number the object of the endeavors of each individual, has not been satisfactorily established by leading utilitarians.
The "greatest happiness principle" he regards as an important secondary guide to conduct, while making social instinct and sympathy primary guides.
For the "Greatest Happiness Principle" he virtually substitutes the "Highest Happiness Principle.
He accepts the 'greatest happiness principle' as applicable to the social problem.
Indeed, from a practical point of view the principle of aiming at the "greatest happiness of the greatest number" is prima facie more definitely opposed to Egoism than the Common-Sense morality is.
The notion of 'Greatest Happiness' has been determined in Book ii.
It has been thought possible to prove on empirical grounds that one's greatest happinessis always attained by the performance of duty.
The simplicity of the 'greatest happiness' principle has been acceptable to philosophers, but the better part of the world has been slow to receive it.
For it has been worn threadbare; and either alternative is equally consistent with a transcendental or with an eudaemonistic system of ethics, with a greatest happiness principle or with Kant's law of duty.
The rest of Mr Bentham's article consists of an exposition of the Utilitarian principle, or, as he decrees that it shall be called, the "greatest happiness principle.
Mr Bentham gives an account of the manner in which he arrived at the discovery of the "greatest happiness principle.
So that maintenance of equitable relations between men is the condition to attainment of greatest happiness in all societies, however much the greatest happiness attainable in each may differ in nature, or amount, or both.
The first question which arises is, must we regard this "greatest happiness principle" as a principle of guidance for the community in its corporate capacity, or as a principle of guidance for its members separately considered, or both?
It must be fulfilled before complete life, that is greatest happiness, can be attained in any society; be the particular quality of that life, or that happiness, what it may.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "greatest happiness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
