UtilitarianismLongmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1867 - 120 páginas |
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... obligation . They either assume the ordinary precepts of morals as of à priori authority , or they lay down as the com- mon groundwork of those maxims , some generality much less obviously authoritative than the maxims themselves , and ...
... obligation . They either assume the ordinary precepts of morals as of à priori authority , or they lay down as the com- mon groundwork of those maxims , some generality much less obviously authoritative than the maxims themselves , and ...
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... obligation . I might go much further , and say that to all those à priori mora- lists who deem it necessary to argue at all , utilitarian arguments are indispensable . It is not my present purpose to criticize these thinkers ; but I ...
... obligation . I might go much further , and say that to all those à priori mora- lists who deem it necessary to argue at all , utilitarian arguments are indispensable . It is not my present purpose to criticize these thinkers ; but I ...
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... obligation to prefer it , that is the more desirable pleasure . If one of the two is , by those who are competently acquainted with both , placed so far above the other that they prefer it , even though knowing it to be at- tended with ...
... obligation to prefer it , that is the more desirable pleasure . If one of the two is , by those who are competently acquainted with both , placed so far above the other that they prefer it , even though knowing it to be at- tended with ...
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... obligation , of learning to do without happiness . Unquestionably it is possible to do without happiness ; it is done involuntarily by nineteen - twentieths of mankind , even in those parts of our present world which are least deep in ...
... obligation , of learning to do without happiness . Unquestionably it is possible to do without happiness ; it is done involuntarily by nineteen - twentieths of mankind , even in those parts of our present world which are least deep in ...
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... obligations . * But to speak only of actions . done from the motive of duty , and in direct obedience * An opponent , whose intellectual and moral fairness it is a pleasure to acknowledge ( the Rev. J. Llewellyn Davies ) , has objected ...
... obligations . * But to speak only of actions . done from the motive of duty , and in direct obedience * An opponent , whose intellectual and moral fairness it is a pleasure to acknowledge ( the Rev. J. Llewellyn Davies ) , has objected ...
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