 | 1861 - 882 pages
...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...possible to require, that happiness is a good : that each person s happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 120 pages
...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...a good : that each person's happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons. Happiness... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 406 pages
...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...a good ; that each person's happiness is a good to that person ; and the general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons. Happiness... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1864 - 206 pages
...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 show that we are morally bound to promote the good of others? "The standard,"... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 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 - 1865 - 666 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1867 - 132 pages
...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...a good : that each person's happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons. Happiness... | |
 | 1872 - 866 pages
...tendency to happiness are not convertible terms. " We have not only all the proof 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, and the general happiness, therefore, a good... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1873 - 408 pages
...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...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... | |
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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... 
