...so-called proof of the principle—may be traced to Hutcheson. "No reason can be given," Mill writes, " why the general happiness is desirable, except that...as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness...each person's happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness, therefore,...

...possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. ... No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable,...it is possible to require, that happiness is a good : 1 Utilitarianism, oliap. i. pp. 6, 7 ; Ie chap. ii. pp. 16, 17. that each person's happiness is a...

...possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. ... No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as be believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact, we have not...

...practice, acknowledged to be an end, nothing could ever convince any person that it is so. No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable,...it is possible to require, that happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness therefore, a good to the aggregate of persons. Happiness...

...happiness alone is desirable, or what ought to be desired and pursued. Moreover, " no reason," he says, " can be given why the general happiness is desirable,...believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness." And this admission, which seems as good as saying that no reason at all can be given why the individual...

...blessing, not an evil. Show me the nation that has ever become great without blood-letting." c. "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. . . . Each person's happiness...

...— to rest on the ambiguity between individual and social happiness." 4 " ' No reason,' he says, ' can be given why the general happiness is desirable,...believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness.' And this admission, which seems as good as saying that no reason at all can be given why the individual...

...Mill adduces his famous argument in the fourth chapter of Utilitarianism. " No reason," he says, " can be given why the general happiness is desirable, except that each person desires his own happiness. Each person's happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness,...

...could make the complete 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...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...

...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...