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... Outlines of moral philosophy, with a mem., a suppl., and questions by J. M'Cosh - Sayfa 125Dugald Stewart tarafından - 1864Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
| 1861 - 882 sayfa
...practice, acknowledged to be an end, nothing could ever convince any person that it was so. No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable,...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... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 120 sayfa
...practice, acknowledged to be an end, nothing could ever convince any person that it was so. No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable,...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... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 406 sayfa
...practice, acknowledged to be an end, nothing could ever convince any person that it was so. No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable,...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... | |
| 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
...utility shows nothing more than that each man desires his own happiness. " No reason," it is said, " can be given why the general happiness is desirable,...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...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 requires... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1867 - 132 sayfa
...practice, acknowledged to be an end, nothing could ever convince any person that it was so. No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable,...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... | |
| 1872 - 832 sayfa
...has to prove. He has to prove that the general happiness is desirable to each individual. " No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable except that each man desires his own happiness." Well, that seems a long way off the conclusion that each man desires... | |
| Thomas Rawson Birks - 1874 - 330 sayfa
...practice, acknowledged to be an end, nothing could ever convince a person that it was so. No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable,...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... | |
| John Fiske - 1874 - 1188 sayfa
...it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable,...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... | |
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