 | Boyd Henry Bode - 1910 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...journey in twentyfour hours it would really take us no time at all. (A.) 11. " No reason, however, can be given why the general happiness is desirable,...not only all the proof •which the case admits of, bat all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good, that each person's happiness is... | |
 | James Johnston Shaw - 1910 - عدد الصفحات: 518
...what 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... | |
 | Edward Fulton - 1911 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...a blessing, not an evil. Show me the nation that has ever become great without blood-letting." g. " No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable except that each person, as far as he believes it to be attainable, desires bis own happiness. . . . Each person's happiness... | |
 | James Welton, Alexander James Monahan - 1911 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...do not differ in essence from the argument given by Mill in support of utilitarianism. He says : " No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable except that each person, as far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact,... | |
 | Peter Coffey - 1912 - عدد الصفحات: 376
...instructive example of the fallacy of composition, from John Stuart Mill's work on Utilitarianism : 1 " No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, as far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact,... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1914 - عدد الصفحات: 822
...statements : — (a) It is curious that psychological ethics are altogether peculiar to Christendom. (6) No reason can be given why the general happiness is...believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. (e) Revenge is a kind of wild justice. (d) He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need... | |
 | Thomas Verner Moore - 1915 - عدد الصفحات: 186
...unlivable. Let us suppose all the world thought that the only reason why crime should be avoided 1 "No reason can be given why the general happiness...except that each person, so far as he believes it to be obtainable, desires his own happiness." Essay on Utilitarianism, Ch. iv, ed. cited, p. 340, cf. infra,... | |
 | John Stuart Mackenzie - 1915 - عدد الصفحات: 998
...by that of Mill. Mill's arffiirnent is stated thus in the fourth chapter of his Utilitarianism : " No reason can be given .why the general happiness is desirable, except that each nerson, sn fnr as he believes it to be attainable,. 1 Apart from the uncertainty which is generally... | |
 | John Watson - 1919 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...Mill answers : " The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people actually desire it. ... No reason can be given why...except that each person, so far as he believes it to be obtainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact, we have not only all the proof... | |
 | Michael Cronin - 1920 - عدد الصفحات: 724
...apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people actually do desire it. ... No reason can be given why the general...believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness." f Later in the same chapter Mill emphasises the fact that pleasure is the sole object of desire, and... | |
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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. 
