 ... 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 which it is possible to...  Utilitarianism - Page 80by John Stuart Mill - 1887 - 149 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1861 - 882 pages
...case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good : that each person s happiness is a good to that person, and the general...and consequently one of the criteria of morality. 530 Love of Virtue for its own. sake. 531 But it has not, by this alone, proved itself to be the sole... | |
 | Great Britain - 1870 - 688 pages
...pursuit of social good on the natural desire of happiness. " ' Each person's happiness,' says Mr. Mill, ' is a good to that person, and the general happiness,...therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons.' We are talking here of ' a good ' as an ' end of action : ' let us substitute the equivalent term,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1872 - 866 pages
...which the ca^e admits I of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good ; tuat each person's happiness is a good to that person,...good to the aggregate of all persons. Happiness has thus made out its title as one of the ends of conduct ; " and, consequently, adds Mr. Mill, as one... | |
 | Theology - 1872 - 832 pages
...it is possible to require, that happiness is a good : that each person's happiness is a good to tlmt person, and the general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons." Surely this is strange reasoning for a professed logician. Let us remember what Mr Mill has to prove.... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - Philosophy, English - 1874 - 348 pages
...all the proof which the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good; that each person's happiness is a good to...general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of persons. Happiness has made out its title as one of the ends of conduct and consequently one of the... | |
 | John Fiske - 1874 - 1188 pages
...all the proof which the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good : that each person's happiness is a good to...general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of persons." He then goes on to shew that pleasure, and pleasure alone, is what all men actually do desire.... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - Philosophy, English - 1874 - 330 pages
...all the proof which the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good; that each person's happiness is a good to...general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of persons. Happiness has made out its title as one of the ends of conduct and consequently one of the... | |
 | Francis Herbert Bradley - Ethics - 1876 - 338 pages
...all the proof which the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good ; that each person's happiness is a good to...therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons ' ( Util., p. 52). Whether our ' great modern logician ' thought that by this he had proved that the... | |
 | Philosophy - 1882 - 528 pages
...der Unlust (seiner Terminologie zufolge also Glück), und gleich wird die Schlussfolgerung gezogen: „Happiness has made out its title as one of the...conduct, and consequently one of the criteria of morality 1)." Dann fährt er mit der Untersuchung fort und erhebt alsbald das Glück zum einzigen Criterium... | |
 | Philosophy - 1882 - 528 pages
...Terminologie zufolge also Glück), und gleich wird die Schlußfolgerung gezogen: „Happiness has inade out its title as one of the ends of conduct, and consequently one of the criteria of morality 1 )." Dann fährt er mit der Untersuchung fort und erhebt alsbald das Glück zum einzigen Criterium... | |
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