 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...  An Introductory Logic - Page 448by James Edwin Creighton - 1909 - 520 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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,...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 - Utilitarianism - 1864 - 108 pages
...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 - 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,...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 - 424 pages
...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... | |
 | Theology - 1872 - 832 pages
...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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - History - 1873 - 408 pages
...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,...not only all the proof which the case admits of, but nil which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good; that each person's happiness is a good... | |
 | Francis Herbert Bradley - Ethics - 1876 - 338 pages
...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 desirable,...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 - Revelation - 1876 - 424 pages
...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 - 486 pages
...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 desirable,...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 - History - 1882 - 444 pages
...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,...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... | |
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