 No reason can be given why 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...  Modern Utilitarianism; Or, The Systems of Paley, Bentham, and Mill Examined ... - Sayfa 196Thomas Rawson Birks tarafından - 1874 - 240 sayfaTam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | 1861 - 882 sayfa
...could ever convince any person that it was so. No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable, except that .each person, so far as he...possible to require, that happiness is a good : that each person s happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 120 sayfa
...could ever convince any person that it was so. No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes...general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons. Happiness has made out its title as one of the ends of conduct, and consequently one of... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 406 sayfa
...could ever convince any person that it was so. No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes...general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons. Happiness has made out its title as one of the ends of conduct, and consequently one of... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1864 - 206 sayfa
...imagines itself to be strongest. " No reason," says Mr Mill, " can be given why the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness" (p. 52). But can this reason show that we are morally bound to promote the good of others? "The standard,"... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 108 sayfa
...convince any person that it was so. No reason * can be given why the general happiness is desirable,W except that each person, so far as he believes it to be j^ attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however," » being a fact, we have not only all the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1865 - 666 sayfa
...man desires his own happiness. " No reason," it is said, " can be given why the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires bis own happiness." It amounts to nothing to add, that u therefore the aggregate of men desire the... | |
 | James McCosh - 1866 - 424 sayfa
...look after the general happiness f . He says, " No reason can be given why the general hap" piness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he "...believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness " (p. 52). But it would need more acuteness than even Mr. Mill is possessed of to show that this principle... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1867 - 132 sayfa
...could ever convince any person that it was so. No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes...general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons. Happiness has made out its title as one of the ends of conduct, and consequently one of... | |
 | 1870 - 688 sayfa
...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... | |
 | 1872 - 832 sayfa
...fully prove his ethical conclusion. " No reason," he says, " can be given why the general happiness ia desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes...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... | |
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