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 306by Peter Coffey - 1912 - 445 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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