 Vice may be defined to be a miscalculation of chances : a mistake in estimating the value of pleasures and pains. It is false moral arithmetic ; and there is the consolation of knowing that, by the application of a right standard, there are few moral...  The Journal of Mental Science - Էջ 2641876Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - 532 էջ
...satisfaction in that of others.' — Bain, On the Emotions and Will, p. 113. 1 ' Vice may be defined to he a miscalculation of chances, a mistake in estimating the value of pleasures and pains. It is false moral arithmetic.' — Bentham's Deontology, vol. ip 181. 1 ' La recompense, la punition,... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1834 - 476 էջ
...of the error may be traced to erroneous education, intellectual and moral. Vice may be defined to be a miscalculation of chances : a mistake in estimating the value of pleasures and pains. It is false moral arithmetic ; and there is the consolation of knowing that, by the application of... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1834 - 678 էջ
...of the error may be traced to erroneous education, intellectual and moral. Vice may be defined to be a miscalculation of chances : a mistake in estimating the value of pleasures and pains. It is false moral arithmetic ; and there is the consolation of knowing that, by the application of... | |
 | 1872 - 882 էջ
...our author may very well denominate inductive ; for, according to Bentham, " Vice may be defmed to be a miscalculation of chances, a mistake in estimating the value of pleasures and pains. It is false moral arithmetic." 2 1 References to the original authors are given sufficiently in foot-notes... | |
 | 1872 - 832 էջ
...author may very well denominate inductive ; for, according to Bentham, " Vice may be defined to be a miscalculation of chances, a mistake in estimating the value of pleasures and pains. It is false moral arithmetic."2 1 References to the original authors are given sufficiently in foot-notes... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1869 - 526 էջ
...satisfaction in that of others.' — Bain, On the Emotions and Will, p. 113. i ' Vice may bo defined to be a miscalculation of chances, a mistake in estimating the value of pleasures and pains. It is false moral arithmetic.' — Bentham's Deontology, vol. ip 131. * ' La recompense, la punition,... | |
 | Newman Smyth - 1877 - 190 էջ
...Leipsic because he felt bound to go, though it should rain Duke Georges * " Vice may be defined to be a miscalculation of chances, a mistake in estimating the value of pleasures and pains. It is false moral arithmetic." — BENTHAM. (See Lecky's "History of European Morals," vol. i., p.... | |
 | John Bascom - 1879 - 432 էջ
...Bentham only discloses his usual confident dogmatism in the assertion ; " Vice may be defined to be a miscalculation of chances ; a mistake in estimating the value of pleasures and pains. It is false moral arithmetic; and there is the consolation of knowing that by the application of a... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1884 - 882 էջ
...matter of calculation. To this effect he cites Bentham's statement that " vice may be defined to be a miscalculation of chances, a mistake in estimating the value of pleasures and pains. It is a false moral arithmetic." Deontology, i. 131. By Hobbes, Selfinterest is made the sole test... | |
 | 1886 - 540 էջ
...of utilitarians, only by the disapprobation and condemnation of society. Vice may be defined to be a miscalculation of chances, a mistake in estimating the value of pleasures and pains. It is false moral arithmetic.17 This writer thus confounds ignorance with crime, error with sin, mental... | |
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