 | John Stuart Mill - 2006 - 118 sayfa
...a-year; because society has come under an obligation to provide him with an income of that amount. To have a right, then, is, I conceive, to have something...can give him no other reason than general utility. If that expression does not seem to convey a sufficient feeling of the strength of the obligation,... | |
 | John R. Fitzpatrick - 2006 - 191 sayfa
...a-year because society has come under an obligation to provide him with an income of that amount . . . To have a right, then, is, I conceive, to have something...ought? I can give him no other reason than general utility.30 The point is that once we move away from talk about 'harm' to talk about 'rights and obligations'... | |
 | David Copp - 2005 - 680 sayfa
...concept of a right, which he relates to that of justice and more generally to wrong (wronging someone): "To have a right, then, is I conceive, to have something...the objector goes on to ask why it ought, I can give no other reason than general utility" (1979, p. 52). This makes rules determining right and wrong "practice... | |
 | Michael J. Sandel - 2007 - 428 sayfa
...hundred a-year because society has come under an obligation to provide him with an income of that amount. To have a right, then, is, I conceive, to have something...can give him no other reason than general utility. If that expression does not seem to convey a sufficient feeling of the strength of the obligation,... | |
 | John Rawls - 2009 - 497 sayfa
...account, to have something guaranteed to him by society, we say that he has a right to it" (V: ^|24). "To have a right, then, is, I conceive, to have something...can give him no other reason than general utility" (V: 4. As I interpret Mill,8 the possession of rights is specified by the rules of right and justice... | |
 | Pio Baake, Rainald Borck - 2007 - 280 sayfa
...to protect him in the possession of it, either by the force of law, or by education and opinion. ... To have a right, then is, I conceive, to have something...can give him no other reason than general utility." (Mill 1863 Book V, p 309) Thus, Mill is thinking of rights as advancing general utility, which in turn... | |
 | David N. Weisstub, Guillermo Díaz Pintos - 2007 - 404 sayfa
...right to personhood. In his book, Utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill said, "To have a right... is... to have something which society ought to defend me...can give him no other reason than general utility" (1948, 40). But if one can give no other reason than general utility, then given its contingent nature,... | |
 | Catholic University of America - 1897 - 524 sayfa
...When we call anything a person' s right we mean that he has a valid claim upon society to protect them in the possession of it. If he has what we consider...ought, I can give him no other reason than general utility."1 Let us now examine the number of elements comprised in this idea of right. 1. Right is a... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1861 - 836 sayfa
...a-year ; because society has come under an obligation to provide him with an income of that amount. To have a right, then, is, I conceive, to have something...can give him no other reason than general utility. If that expression does not seem to convey a sufficient feeling of the strength of the obligation,... | |
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To have a right, then, is, I conceive, to have something which society ought to defend me in the possession of. If the objector goes on to ask why it ought, I can give him no other reason than general utility. 
