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
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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