 | Dugald Stewart - 1864 - عدد الصفحات: 206
...others. It fails at this point where it imagines itself to be strongest. " No reason," says Mr Mill, " can be given why the general happiness is desirable,...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 - عدد الصفحات: 108
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 666
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...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... | |
 | 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 832
...Mr Mill 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... | |
 | Francis Herbert Bradley - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 338
...than Mr. Mill himself; and he has proved that the Utilitarian end is desirable. Let us hear him ; ' No reason can be given why the general happiness is...person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, ground can he say I may not î on what ground can he refuse to discuss the case ? On what ground can... | |
 | William Horne - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...the kingdom • " No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable," Mr. Mill says, " except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires hit* own happiness." of heaven established by Christ is, that in the former we have a standard of duty... | |
 | James McCosh - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 486
...utilitarianism draw its motive and obligation to constrain us to look after the general happiness ? He says, " No reason can be given why the general happiness is...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 - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...and in 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...a fact, we have not only all the proof which the" a. case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good ; that each person-s... | |
 | Alfred Barratt - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 360
...Paley, as is well known, explicitly adopts the same view. JS Mill ( Utilitarianism, p. 53) says : — " No reason can be given why the general happiness is...believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness " ; and (Ib., p. 66) " Virtue according to the Utilitarian conception is a good of this description.... | |
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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. 
