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" 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 17
by John Stuart Mill - 1887 - 149 pages
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The Ethics of Tourism Development

Mick Smith, Rosaleen Duffy - Business & Economics - 2003 - 195 pages
...intellect, the imagination, and the moral sentiments. 'Human beings have faculties more elevated than the animal appetites, and when once made conscious of...happiness which does not include their gratification' (ibid.). It could well be the case that many tourists would indeed discover that their visit was enriched...
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Marxism and Human Nature

Robert Caper - Psychoanalysis - 1999 - 398 pages
...of satisfaction and pleasure than mere animals. 'Human beings have faculties more elevated than the animal appetites, and when once made conscious of...happiness which does not include their gratification' (Mill 1863: 7). The higher faculties, for Mill, are the mental faculties, which include 'the intellect...
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Love Your Neighbor and Yourself: A Jewish Approach to Modern Personal Ethics

Elliot N. Dorff - Religion - 2003 - 394 pages
...the one would be good enough for the other. . . . Human beings have faculties more elevated than the animal appetites and, when once made conscious of...happiness which does not include their gratification. . . . But there is no known Epicurean theory of life which does not assign to the pleasures of the...
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Tawfiq Al-Hakim: A Reader's Guide

William M. Hutchins - 2003 - 298 pages
...Stuart Mill also rigged this question the same way: "Human beings have faculties more elevated than the animal appetites, and when once made conscious of...anything as happiness which does not include their gratification."10 Ever since the end of World War I, al-Hakim responded in various ways to changes...
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Happiness and Education

Nel Noddings - Education - 2003 - 324 pages
...the one would be good enough for the other. . . . Human beings have faculties more elevated than the animal appetites, and when once made conscious of...anything as happiness which does not include their gratification.19 Thus Mill, quite as surely as Aristotle, evaluates the pleasures of the intellect...
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First Philosophy I: Values and Society: Fundamental Problems and Readings in ...

Andrew Bailey - Philosophy - 2004 - 362 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...principle. To do this in any sufficient manner, many Stoic,19 as well as Christian elements 1 8 For example, in Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers,...
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The Madwoman's Reason: The Concept of the Appropriate in Ethical Thought

Nancy J. Holland - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 160 pages
...their use of our more developed mental abilities: "Human beings have faculties more elevated than the animal appetites and, when once made conscious of...happiness which does not include their gratification." 6 Again, that we take it to be so is counted as evidence that it is so, that the "animal" pleasures...
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An Introduction to Mill's Utilitarian Ethics

Henry R. West - Philosophy - 2004 - 240 pages
...the one would be good enough for the other. But human beings have faculties 48 more elevated than the animal appetites, and when once made conscious of them, do not regard anything as happiness that does not include their gratification. The higher faculties that he names are the intellect, the...
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Moral Problems in Medicine: A Practical Coursebook

Michael Palmer - Medical ethics - 2005 - 200 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 ... But there is no known Epicurean theory of life which does not assign to the pleasure of the intellect,...
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Epicurus and Democritean Ethics: An Archaeology of Ataraxia

James Warren - Performing Arts - 2002 - 262 pages
...satisfy a human being's conception of happiness. Human beings have faculties more elevated than the human appetites, and when once made conscious of them, do...happiness which does not include their gratification. But there is no known Epicurean theory of life which does not assign to the pleasures of the intellect,...
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