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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. This, however, being a fact, we have not only all the proof which the case admits of, but all... "
The Science of Logic - Page 306
by Peter Coffey - 1912 - 445 pages
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Fraser's Magazine, Volume 64

1861 - 882 pages
...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 desirable, except that .each person, so far as he believes it to Be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact,...
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Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism - 1863 - 120 pages
...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 desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact,...
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Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism - 1864 - 108 pages
...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 proof which the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good: that each...
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Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and ..., Volume 3

John Stuart Mill - History - 1864 - 406 pages
...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 desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact,...
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Outlines of moral philosophy, with a mem., a suppl., and questions by J. M'Cosh

Dugald Stewart - 1864 - 206 pages
...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, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness" (p. 52). But can this reason...
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The North American Review, Volume 100

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1865 - 666 pages
...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, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires bis own happiness." It amounts to nothing to add,...
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An Examination of Mr. J.S. Mill's Philosophy: Being a Defence of Fundamental ...

James McCosh - 1866 - 424 pages
...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...
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Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism - 1867 - 132 pages
...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 desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact,...
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The British and Foreign Evangelical Review, Volume 21

Theology - 1872 - 832 pages
...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...
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Modern Utilitarianism; Or, The Systems of Paley ..., Volume 25; Volume 484

Thomas Rawson Birks - Philosophy, English - 1874 - 348 pages
...was so. No reason can be given why the general happiness \& desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his...however being a fact, we have not only all the proof which the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good; that each...
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