 | Bertrand Russell, Peter Köllner - 1996 - 954 pages
...all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their...reality he will remain subject to it all the while." 446: 35 (2) every man ought to pursue the general happiness The passage quoted above is followed by... | |
 | Samuel Gregg - 2003 - 148 pages
...masters, pain and pleasure . . . they govern us in all that we do, all that we say, in all that we think In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire,...but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while."12 It is difficult to detect much difference between this claim and Hume's maxim that reason... | |
 | James Steintrager - 2004 - 144 pages
...we think : every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their...subject to it all the while. The principle of utility recognizes this subjection, and assumes it for the foundation of that system, the object of which is... | |
 | Erik S. Reinert - 2007 - 352 pages
...not do. ... [E]very effort we make to throw off our subjugation, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their...subject to it all the while. The principle of utility the greatest happiness or greatest felicity principle - recognises this subjugation, and assumes it... | |
 | Nicholas Deakin, Catherine Jones Finer, Bob Matthews - 2004 - 338 pages
...all we think: every effort we can make to throw olT our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their...subject to it all the while. The principle of Utility* recognizes this subjection, and assumes it for the foundation of that system, the object of which is... | |
 | Gary Storhoff - 2004 - 278 pages
...all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their...reality he will remain subject to it all the while." This observation becomes Bentham's guiding principle, asserting that it is for pleasure or pain alone... | |
 | Robert A. Bowie - 2004 - 356 pages
...all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their...reality he will remain subject to it all the while ... II ... By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every... | |
 | Alban McCoy - 2006 - 186 pages
...in all we think; every effort we can make to throw off our subjection will serve to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their...reality he will remain subject to it all the while', loc. cit. 9. Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, I, sec. 1, note 1. Cited by... | |
 | Benjamin R. Barber - 2003 - 242 pages
...determine what we shall do. . . . They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think. ... In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire:...reality he will remain subject to it all the while." terrorists themselves could hold out against such overwhelming preventive/deterrent force. The Palestinians... | |
 | Anthony Kessel - 2006 - 272 pages
...all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their...reality he will remain subject to it all the while. Extraordinarily, Bentham came up with 58 synonyms for pleasure, all denoting the same sensation, and... | |
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... shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think; every effort we can make to throw off our subjection... 
