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... happiness . That , for them , was the " root question " to be addressed to any law , custom , or insti- tution . For the most part they did not spend time seeking to justify this principle . This task J. S. Mill undertook to do . They ...
... happiness . That , for them , was the " root question " to be addressed to any law , custom , or insti- tution . For the most part they did not spend time seeking to justify this principle . This task J. S. Mill undertook to do . They ...
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... happiness but the happiness of all concerned . Utilitarianism does , however , refuse to admit that sacrifice of one's own good is itself a good . A sacrifice which does not increase the sum of happiness is wasted . The only sacrifice ...
... happiness but the happiness of all concerned . Utilitarianism does , however , refuse to admit that sacrifice of one's own good is itself a good . A sacrifice which does not increase the sum of happiness is wasted . The only sacrifice ...
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... happiness is unattainable . But this is not what philosophers have meant by happiness when they taught that happiness was the end of life . The happiness which they meant was not a life of rapture , but moments of such in an existence ...
... happiness is unattainable . But this is not what philosophers have meant by happiness when they taught that happiness was the end of life . The happiness which they meant was not a life of rapture , but moments of such in an existence ...
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