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 | John Stuart Mill - History - 1859 - 500 pages
...ethical philosophy. It is probable, however, that to the principle of utility we owe all that Bentham did ; that it was necessary to him to find a first principle, yT which_he_cpuld.receiYje, as self-evident, and to which, he could attach all his other doctrines... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - History - 1864 - 452 pages
...ethical philosophy. It is probable, however, that to the principle of utility we owe all that Bentham did ; that it was necessary to him to find a first...happiness be or be not the end to which morality should be referred, — that it be referred to an end of some sort, and not left in the dominion of vague feeling,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - History - 1873 - 456 pages
...ethical philosophy. It is probable, however, that to the principle of utility we owe all that Bentham did ; that it was necessary to him to find a first...indispensable condition of his confidence in his own intc-llect. And there is something further to be remarked. Whether happiness be or be not the end to... | |
 | John Stuart Mill, J. W. M. Gibbs - Economics - 1897 - 480 pages
...ethical doctrine.] It is probable, however, that to the principle of utility we owe all that Bentham did ; that it was necessary to him to find a first...happiness be or be not the end to which morality should be referred — that it be referred to an end of some sort, and not left in the dominion of vague feeling... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1897 - 416 pages
...scientific point of view, for the sake of the systematic unity and coherency of ethical philosophy. . . . Whether happiness be or be not the end to which morality should be referred — that it be referred to an end of some sort, and not left in the dominion of vague feeling... | |
 | Bhikhu C. Parekh - 1993 - 600 pages
...probable, however, that to the principle of utility we owe all that Bentham did; that it was necessary for him to find a first principle which he could receive...happiness be or be not the end to which morality should be referred— that it be referred to an end of some sort, and not left in the dominion of vague feeling... | |
 | Necip Fikri Alican - Philosophy - 1994 - 264 pages
...consequentialism as the best theory of moral obligation in the following passage in his essay on Bentham. Whether happiness be or be not the end to which morality should be referred — thai it be referred to an end of some sort, and not left in the dominion of vague feeling... | |
 | Charles Robert McCann - Business & Economics - 2004 - 258 pages
...clear on this point in his attack on the moral philosophy of William Whewell (Mill 1 852, pp. 234-7). 4 "Whether happiness be or be not the end to which morality should be referred - that it be referred to an end of some sort, and not left in the dominion of vague feeling... | |
 | Lisa Rasmussen - Medical - 2005 - 300 pages
...must necessarily be Ideological or consequential ist in nature. In his essay "Bentham" he writes that: Whether happiness be or be not the end to which morality should be referred — that it be referred to an end of some sort, and not left in the dominion of vague feeling... | |
 | John R. Fitzpatrick - Philosophy - 2006 - 191 pages
...axiological methodology. It is probable, however, that to the principle of utility we owe all that Bentham did; that it was necessary to him to find a first...indispensable condition of his confidence in his own intellect . . . Whether Happiness be or not be the end to which morality should be referred that it be referred... | |
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