...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,...

...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,...

...proof which the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good: that each person's happiness is a good to that person,...general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons. Happiness has made out its title as one of the ends of conduct, and consequently one of...

...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,...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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,...

...pursuit of social good on the natural desire of happiness. " ' Each person's happiness,' says Mr. Mill, ' is a good to that person, and the general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons.' We are talking here of ' a good ' as an ' end of action : ' let us substitute the equivalent...

...which the ca^e admits I of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good ; tuat each person's happiness is a good to that person,...general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons. Happiness has thus made out its title as one of the ends of conduct ; " and, consequently,...