 No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact, we have not only all the proof which the case admits of, but all...  On the Ethics of Naturalism - Página 61por William Ritchie Sorley - 1885 - 292 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1861 - 882 páginas
...practice, acknowledged to be an end, nothing could ever convince any person that it was so. No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable,...believes it to Be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact, we have not only all the proof which the case admits of, but all which... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 120 páginas
...practice, acknowledged to be an end, nothing could ever convince any person that it was so. No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable,...believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact, we have not only all the proof which the case admits of, but all which... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1864 - 206 páginas
...others. It fails at this point where it imagines itself to be strongest. " No reason," says Mr Mill, " can be given why the general happiness is desirable,...believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness" (p. 52). But can this reason show that we are morally bound to promote the good of others? "The standard,"... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 406 páginas
...practice, acknowledged to be an end, nothing could ever convince any person that it was so. No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable,...believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact, we have not only all the proof which the case admits of, but all which... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 108 páginas
...convince any person that it was so. No reason * can be given why the general happiness is desirable,W except that each person, so far as he believes it to be j^ attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however," » being a fact, we have not only all the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1865 - 666 páginas
...utility shows nothing more than that each man desires his own happiness. " No reason," it is said, " can be given why the general happiness is desirable,...so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires bis own happiness." It amounts to nothing to add, that u therefore the aggregate of men desire the... | |
 | James McCosh - 1866 - 424 páginas
...look after the general happiness f . He says, " No reason can be given why the general hap" piness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he...believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness " (p. 52). But it would need more acuteness than even Mr. Mill is possessed of to show that this principle... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1867 - 132 páginas
...practice, acknowledged to be an end, nothing could ever convince any person that it was so. No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable,...believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact, we have not only all the proof which the case admits of, but all which... | |
 | 1872 - 832 páginas
...has to prove. He has to prove that the general happiness is desirable to each individual. " No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable except that each man desires his own happiness." Well, that seems a long way off the conclusion that each man desires... | |
 | John Fiske - 1874 - 1188 páginas
...it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable,...believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact, we have not only all the proof which the case admits of, but all which... | |
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