 | Victor John Knight Brook - 1922 - 152 sayfa
...makes one pleasure more valuable than another, merely as a pleasure, there is but one possible answer. Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or...to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure " — especially if those who so choose know it " to be attended with a greater amount of discontent."... | |
 | George Stuart Fullerton - 1922 - 400 sayfa
...gives a criterion for distinguishing the former from the latter: " Of two pleasures, if there be r one to which all or almost all who have experience...to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure." He refers the whole matter to the judgment of the " competent;" and, in accordance with that judgment,... | |
 | John Augustus William Haas - 1923 - 340 sayfa
...safety, uncostliness, etc., ie in their circumstantial advantages, there is a standard of quality. "Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or...both give a decided preference, irrespective of any moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. If one of the two is, by those... | |
 | Max Carl Otto - 1924 - 344 sayfa
...senses). John Stuart Mill later defended this view with clearness and force. "Of two pleasures," he said, "if there be one to which all or almost all who have...prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure." And he felt it to be an unquestionable fact that this test proved the employment of the higher faculties... | |
 | Max Carl Otto - 1924 - 452 sayfa
...senses). John Stuart Mill later defended this view with clearness and force. "Of two pleasures," he said, "if there be one to which all or almost all who have...prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure." And he felt it to be an unquestionable fact that this test proved the employment of the higher faculties... | |
 | Columbia University. Department of Philosophy - 1925 - 422 sayfa
...another, merely as pleasure, except its being greater in amount, there is but one possible answer. Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or...to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. If one of the two is, by those who are competently acquainted with both, placed so far above the other... | |
 | Michael Palmer - 1995 - 226 sayfa
...another, merely as a pleasure, except its being greater in amount, there is but one possible answer. Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or...to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. If one of the two is, by those who are competently acquainted with both, placed so far above the other... | |
 | Scott Lehmann - 1995 - 263 sayfa
...being of a rather low order. His suggested criterion of quality is the preference of competent judges: "Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or...to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure." 39 He adds that it is a "sense of dignity" 40 that keeps us from preferring the "lower pleasures."... | |
 | Daniel N. Robinson - 1995 - 390 sayfa
...another merely as a pleasure, except its being greater in amount, there is but one possible answer. Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or...obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.19 Students of modern behaviorism will recognize in this passage the forerunner of that notion... | |
 | David DeGrazia - 1996 - 320 sayfa
...of differential quality is the choice or preference of individuals well acquainted with the options: "Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or...obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."54 Applying this standard to the issue of the comparative value of whole lives, he states... | |
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Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. 
