Download or read book Logic and Utility the tests of truth and falsehood and of right and wrong being an outline of Logic the science of reasoning and of the utilitarian or happiness theory of morals By G R i e George Drysdale written by G. R. and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Logic and Utility the tests of truth and falsehood and of right and wrong being an outline of Logic the science of reasoning and of the utilitarian or happiness theory of morals By G R i e George Drysdale written by g R. and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Logic and Utility written by George Drysdale and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Logic and Utility written by George Drysdale and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Utilitarianism written by John Stuart Mill and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1864 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are continually informed that Utility is an uncertain standard, which every different person interprets differently, and that there is no safety but in the immutable, ineffaceable, and unmistakable dictates of justice, which carry their evidence in themselves, and are independent of the fluctuations of opinion. One would suppose from this that on questions of justice there could be no controversy; that if we take that for our rule, its application to any given case could leave us in as little doubt as a mathematical demonstration.
Download or read book Utilitarianism written by John Stuart Mill and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is a philosophical defense of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. It went through four editions during Mill's lifetime with minor additions and revisions. Although Mill includes discussions of utilitarian ethical principles in other works such as On Liberty and The Subjection of Women, Utilitarianism contains Mill's only major discussion of the fundamental grounds for utilitarian ethical theory. In the first two chapters, Mill aims to define precisely what utilitarianism claims in terms of the general moral principles that it uses to judge concrete actions, as well as in terms of the sort of evidence that is supposed to be given for such principles. He hopes thus to do away with some common misunderstandings of utilitarianism, as well as to defend it against philosophical criticisms, most notably those of Kant. In the first chapter, he distinguishes two broad schools of ethical theory — those whose principles are defended by appeals to intuition and those whose principles are defended by appeals to experience. He identifies utilitarianism as one of the empirical theories of ethics. In the second chapter, Mill formulates a single ethical principle, from which he says all utilitarian ethical principles are derived: The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure. Most importantly, it is not the agent's own greatest happiness that matters "but the greatest amount of happiness altogether." Utilitarianism, therefore, can only attain its goal of greater happiness by cultivating the nobleness of individuals so that all can benefit from the honor of others. In fact, notes Mill, Utilitarianism is actually a "standard of morality" which uses happiness of the greater number of people as its ultimate goal.
Download or read book Thinking Through Utilitarianism written by Andrew T. Forcehimes and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking Through Utilitarianism: A Guide to Contemporary Arguments offers something new among texts elucidating the ethical theory known as Utilitarianism. Intended primarily for students ready to dig deeper into moral philosophy, it examines, in a dialectical and reader-friendly manner, a set of normative principles and a set of evaluative principles leading to what is perhaps the most defensible version of Utilitarianism. With the aim of laying its weaknesses bare, each principle is serially introduced, challenged, and then defended. The result is a battery of stress tests that shows with great clarity not only what is attractive about the theory, but also where its problems lie. It will fascinate any student ready for a serious investigation into what we ought to do and what is of value.
Download or read book Logic Or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth with a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life as Well as in the Sciences written by Isaac Watts and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Logic of the Moral Sciences written by John Stuart Mill and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 1988 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents The Logic of the Moral Sciences by Mill, John Stuart; Ayer, A.J. (Introduction by) Terms of Use Introduction A.J. Ayer p. 9 1. Introductory Remarks p. 19 2. Of Liberty and Necessity p. 22 3. That there is, or may be, a Science of Human Nature p. 30 4. Of the Laws of Mind p. 35 5. Of Ethology, or the Science of the Formation of Character p. 46 6. General Considerations on the Social Science p. 61 7. Of the Chemical, or Experimental Method in the Social Science p. 65 8. Of the Geometrical, or Abstract Method p. 74 9. Of the Physical, or Concrete Deductive Method p. 83 10. Of the Inverse Deductive, or Historical Method p. 100 11. Additional Elucidations of the Science of History p. 121 12. Of the Logic of Practice, or Art; including Morality and Policy p. 134 Descriptive content provided by Syndetics"! a Bowker service.
Download or read book An Examination of the Utilitarian Theory of Morals written by Francis Robert Beattie and published by Brantford, Ont. : Sutherland. This book was released on 1885 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Morality and Utility written by Jan Narveson and published by Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1967. In the past half-century, Utilitarianism has fallen out of favor among professional philosophers, except in such "amended" forms as "Ideal" and "Rule" Utilitarianism. Professor Narveson contends that amendments and qualifications are unnecessary and misguided, and that a careful interpretation and application of the original theory, as advocated by Bentham, the Mills, and Sidgwick, obviates any need for modification. Drawing on the analytical work of such influential recent thinkers as Stevenson, Toulmin, Hare, Nowell-Smith, and Baier, the author attempts to draw a more careful and detailed picture than has previously been offered of the logical status and workings of the Principle of Utility. He then turns to the traditional objections to the theory as developed by such respected thinkers as Ross, Frankena, Hart, and Rawls and attempts to show how Utilitarianism can account for our undoubted obligations in the areas of punishment, promising, distributive justice, and the other principal moral convictions of mankind. He contends that the Principle of Utility implies whatever is recognized to be clearly true in these convictions and that it leaves room to doubt whatever is doubtful in them. Narveson concludes with a rationally forceful proof of the Principle of Utility. In the course of this argument, which draws on the most widely accepted recent findings in analytical ethics, Narveson discovers an essential identity between the ethical outlooks of Kant and of Mill, which are traditionally held to be antithetical. Both thinkers, he shows, center on the principle that the interests of others are to be regarded as equal in value to one's own. A new view of Mill's celebrated "proof of utilitarianism" is developed in the course of the discussion.
Download or read book Utilitarianism written by John Mill and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is a classic exposition and defense of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. Mill's aim in the book is to explain what utilitarianism is, to show why it is the best theory of ethics, and to defend it against a wide range of criticisms and misunderstandings. Though heavily criticized both in Mill's lifetime and in the years since, Utilitarianism did a great deal to popularize utilitarian ethics and was "the most influential philosophical articulation of a liberal humanistic morality that was produced in the nineteenth century."Mill took many elements of his version of utilitarianism from Jeremy Bentham, the great nineteenth-century legal reformer, who along with William Paley were the two most influential English utilitarians prior to Mill. Like Bentham, Mill believed that happiness (or pleasure, which both Bentham and Mill equated with happiness) was the only thing humans do and should desire for its own sake. Since happiness is the only intrinsic good, and since more happiness is preferable to less, the goal of the ethical life is to maximize happiness. This is what Bentham and Mill call "the principle of utility" or "the greatest-happiness principle." Both Bentham and Mill thus endorse "classical" or "hedonistic" forms of utilitarianism. More recent utilitarians often deny that happiness is the sole intrinsic good, arguing that a variety of values and consequences should be considered in ethical decision making.Although Mill agreed with Bentham about many of the foundational principles of ethics, he also had some major disagreements. In particular, Mill tried to develop a more refined form of utilitarianism that would harmonize better with ordinary morality and highlight the importance in the ethical life of intellectual pleasures, self-development, high ideals of character, and conventional moral rules.In Chapter 1, titled "General Remarks," Mill notes that there has been little progress in ethics. Since the beginning of philosophy, the same issues have been debated over and over again, and philosophers continue to disagree sharply over the basic starting points of ethics. Mill argues that these philosophical disputes have not seriously damaged popular morality, largely because conventional morality is substantially, though implicitly, utilitarian. He concludes the chapter by noting that he will not attempt to give a strict "proof" of the greatest-happiness principle. Like Bentham, Mill believed that ultimate ends and first principles cannot be demonstrated, since they lie at the foundation of everything else that we know and believe. Nevertheless, he claims, "considerations may be presented capable of determining the intellect," which amount to something close to a proof of the principle of utility.
Download or read book Logic for Use written by Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Utilitarianism Classic Reprint written by John Stuart Mill and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Utilitarianism It is true that similar confusion and uncertainty, and in some cases similar discordance, exist respecting the first principles of all the sciences, not excepting that which is deemed the most certain of them, mathematics without much impairing, generally in deed without impairing at all, the trustworthiness of the conclusions of those sciences. An apparent ano maly, the explanation of which is, that the detailed doctrines of a science are not usually deduced from, nor depend for their evidence upon, what are called its first principles. Were it not so, there would be no science more precarious, or whose conclusions were more insufficiently made out, than algebra which derives none of its certainty from What are commonly taught to learners as its elements, since these, as laid down by some of its most eminent teachers, are as full of fictions as English law, and of mysteries as theology. The truths which are ultimately'accepted as the first principles of a science, are really the last results of metaphysical analysis, practised on the ele mentary notions with which the science is conversant; and their relation to the science is not that of founda tions to an edifice, but of roots to a tree, which may perform their office equally well though they be never dug down to and exposed to light. Win science the fiparticular truths precede the general t nhfibe expectedlm to be the! Case. With Wchas morals ollegislatmnlajl' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Utilitarianism written by John Mills and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ethical theory of John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) is most extensively articulated in his classical text Utilitarianism (1861). Its goal is to justify the utilitarian principle as the foundation of morals. This principle says actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote overall human happiness.
Download or read book Logic written by Isaac 1674-1748 Watts and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book For the Sake of the Argument written by Isaac Levi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-26 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suppositions made "for the sake of the argument" sometimes conflict with our beliefs, and when they do, some beliefs are rejected and others retained. Thanks to such hypothetical belief contravention, adding content to a supposition can undermine conclusions reached without it. Subversion can also arise because suppositional reasoning is ampliative. These two types of nonmonotonicity are the focus of this book.
