...life and the greatest happiness, and hence it is possible " to deduce from the laws of life and the conditions of existence, what kinds of action necessarily...happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness." The correspondence between greatest pleasure and completeness of life is proved in this way. Before...

...Mill : f " I conceive it to be the business of moral science to deduce from the laws of life and the conditions of existence what kinds of action necessarily...tend to produce happiness and what kinds to produce * See original preface to The Data of Ethics (1879). f Reprinted in The Principles of Ethics, § 21....

...utilitarianism to which he adheres as deductions from laws of life and conditions of existence as to "what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness and what kinds to produce unhappiness " ; " which deductions are to be recognised as laws of conduct, and are to be conformed to irrespective...

...conditions of existence what kinds of action * Science of Ethics, pp. 148, 168. t Data of Ethics, § 21. necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds...are to be recognised as laws of conduct, and are to be conformed to irrespective of a direct estimation of happiness or misery." Finally, as illustrations...

...conditions of existence what kinds of action * Science of Ethics, pp. 148, 168. f Data of Ethics, § 21. necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds...are to be recognised as laws of conduct, and are to be conformed to irrespective of a direct estimation of happiness or misery." Finally, as illustrations...

...Stephen's Science of Ethics, 353-379.) According to Spencer, we must "deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence, what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness." And to derive perfect moral laws, we must postulate the case of a "completely adapted man in a completely...

...to be the business of Moral Science to deduce, of ethics. The problem from the laws of life and the conditions of existence, what kinds of action necessarily...deductions are to be recognised as laws of conduct." Now it is clear that we cannot know ' the laws of life and the conditions of existence ' in any other...

...following words : The problem from the laws of life and the conditions of existence, what kinds of ethics. Of action necessarily tend to produce happiness, and...deductions are to be recognised as laws of conduct." Now it is clear that we cannot know ' the laws of life and the conditions of existence ' in any other...

...things ; and I conceive it to be the business of Moral Science to deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence, what kinds of action necessarily...produce unhappiness. Having done this, its deductions arc to be recognized as laws of conduct ; and are to be conformed to irrespective of a direct estimation...

...of ethics. o f ac tion necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds The province of logic. to produce unhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are to be recognised as laws of conduct." Now it is clear that we cannot know ' the laws of life and the conditions of existence' in any other...