The comparison of the Epicurean life to that of beasts is felt as degrading, precisely because a beast's pleasures do not satisfy a human being's conceptions of happiness. Human beings have faculties more elevated than the animal appetites, and when once... Utilitarianism - Page 17by John Stuart Mill - 1887 - 149 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Stuart Mill - History - 1864 - 406 pages
...satisfy a human being's conceptions of happiness. Human beings have faculties more elevated than the animal appetites; and, when once made conscious of them, do not regard any thing as happiness which does not include then* gratification. I do not, indeed, consider the Epicureans... | |
| Religion and science - 1867 - 510 pages
...spoken of as if it were identical with the system of Epicurus ; though afterwards Mr. Mill adds : " I do not, indeed, consider the Epicureans to have...principle. To do this in any sufficient manner, many Sloie as well as Christian elements require to be included." Here, again, we have an important concession... | |
| Henry Allon - Christianity - 1863 - 550 pages
...satisfy a human being's conceptions ' of happiness. Human beings have faculties more elevated than ' the animal appetites, and when once made conscious of...happiness which does not include their ' gratification.' The author proceeds to consider and to answer various objections which have been made to the theory... | |
| John Stuart Mill - History - 1873 - 408 pages
...and, when once made conscious of them, do not regard any thing an happiness which docs not inelude their gratification. I do not, indeed, consider the...Stoic as well as Christian elements require to be ineluded. But there is no known Epicurean theory of life which does not assign to the pleasures of... | |
| John Stuart Mill - History - 1874 - 404 pages
...conscious of them, do not regard any thing as happiness which does not include their gratitieation. I do not, indeed, consider the Epicureans to have...consequences from the utilitarian principle. To do this La any sufficient manner, many Stoic as well as Christian elements require to be included. But there... | |
| Thomas Rawson Birks - Philosophy - 1874 - 348 pages
...satisfy a human being's conception of happiness. Human beings have faculties more elevated than the animal appetites, and when once made conscious of them, do not regard any thing as happiness which does not include their gratification There is no known Epicurean theory... | |
| Thomas Rawson Birks - Philosophy - 1874 - 330 pages
...satisfy a human being's conception of happiness. Human beings have faculties more elevated than the animal appetites, and when once made conscious of them, do not regard any thing as happiness which does not include their gratification There is no known Epicurean theory... | |
| Exile from France - Communism - 1876 - 472 pages
...permanency, safety , uncostliness, etc., of the former." " Human beings have faculties more elevated than the animal appetites, and when once made conscious of...happiness which does not include their gratification." In order to illustrate still more fully Mr. Mill's conception of the true nature of happiness, we requote... | |
| Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters - Science - 1876 - 636 pages
...voluptas being used in a sense even grosser than that of our derivative voluptuous. Mr. JS Mill does not "consider the Epicureans to have been by any means...scheme of consequences from the utilitarian principle" (Utilitarianism p. 11;) Professor Bain " cannot but remark that the title or formula of the theory... | |
| An exile from France - Communism - 1876 - 466 pages
...permanency, safety , uncostliness, etc., of the former." " Human beings have faculties more elevated than the animal appetites, and when once made conscious of...happiness which does not include their gratification." In order to illustrate still more fully Mr. Mill's conception of the true nature of happiness, we requote... | |
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