...which this question is as amenable to it as any other of the disputed questions of philosophy." 2 " Considerations may be presented capable of determining...assent to the doctrine; and this is equivalent to proof."3 The ground of Mill's hedonistic conception of the moral end is not an intuition,2 but consists...

...rational faculty. Considerations may be presented capable of determining the intellect to give or to withhold its assent to the doctrine ; and this is equivalent to proof. The discussion of the nature and value of this proof must be preceded by an attempt to explain and...

...else is gapd, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, EutiTnot a subject of what is commonly understood by proof....presently of what nature are these considerations; b what manner they apply to the case, and what rational grounds, therefore, can be given for accepting...

...mishmash... Immanuel Kant Questions of ultimate ends are not amenable to direct proof... however... considerations may be presented capable of determining the intellect either to give or to withold its assent. John Stuart Mill Never as yet has a new prophecy emerged... through the need...

...rejection must depend on blind impulse or arbitrary choice. . . . The subject is within the cognizance of the rational faculty, and neither does that faculty...or withhold its assent to the doctrine, and this is the equivalent of proof.4 Furthermore, at the end of Chapter IV, he says that if the doctrine he has...

...arbitrary choice. There is a larger meaning of the word proof . . . The subject is within the cognizance of the rational faculty; and neither does that faculty...to the doctrine; and this is equivalent to proof. (1861a, p. 208) What sort of proof, then, does Mill give for the principle of utility? Mill claims...

...something more than being 'a mere commitment about which general reasoning is unnecessary or undesirable'. 'The subject is within the cognisance of the rational...faculty deal with it solely in the way of intuition. ' In these circumstances 'considerations may be presented capable of determining the intellect either...

...first principles, which are not amenable to direct proof. But in this case, as he also rightly says, 'considerations may be presented capable of determining...either to give or withhold its assent to the doctrine' (p. 7). It is such considerations which Professor Sidgwick presents, and such also that I shall try...

...deductive proof of the principle of utility but to present an empirical argument or "considerations . . . capable of determining the intellect either to give or withhold its assent to the doctrine" (io:2o8).38 Since the 37Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics (London, icoi; New York, 1966), 200....

...direct proof (1993, 126). Immediately following this accusation, Moore quotes Mill's statement that "[considerations may be presented capable of determining...either to give or withhold its assent to the doctrine" (UI 5; CW.X.208; Moore 1993, 126). Moore quotes this sentence at the turning point of his examination...