I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions; but it must be utility in the largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests of man as a progressive being. On Liberty - Página 24de John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 207 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1859 - 584 páginas
...by disclaiming, as a utilitarian must, any appeal to abstract right. " I regard utility," he says, " as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions ;...permanent interests of man as a progressive being." And the influence of this theory is marked throughout the book. For, starting with the assumption that... | |
| 1859 - 662 páginas
...sufficient warrant." And the basis of their principle is further stated to be not " abstract right," but " utility in the largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests of man as a progressive being." This defines the sphere of action in which society has a direct interest. An act positively hurtful... | |
| Julius Fröbel - 1864 - 770 páginas
...onbcre« als bie befreienbe ffiirfung in ben Singen. **) On Liberty. By John Stuart Mill, p. 24. „I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical...permanent interests of man as a progressive being." — ***) SDiaii wirft bem amerifanifdien ©eijlc »or fïdj im ¡Matériau«* тив ju Serlieren,... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 118 páginas
...could be derived to my argument from the idea of abstract right, as a thing independent of utility. I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical...largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests of a man as a progressive being. Those interests, I contend, authorize the subjection of individual spontaneity... | |
| Massachusetts. Commission on Hours of Labor - 1867 - 142 páginas
...idea of abstract right, as a thing independent of utility. I regard utility as the ultimate appeal in all ethical questions ; but it must be utility in...permanent interests of man as a progressive being." Guizot reveals the other on pages 114 and 137 of " The History of Civilization " : — " This fact... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1869 - 570 páginas
...fallible being " ; and this he again repeats || in almost the same words. Then^f he says that he regards utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions ; but it must be utility grounded on the permanent interests of man as a progressive being. And in another place ** he tells... | |
| James Fitzjames Stephen - 1873 - 360 páginas
...to his ' argument from the idea of abstract right as a thing independent of utility/ He adds : ' I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical...largest sense grounded on the permanent interests of a man as a progressive being.' He concludes by specifying ' the appropriate region of human liberty.... | |
| Exile from France - 1876 - 472 páginas
...The equal claim of everybody to happiness involves an equal claim to all the means of happiness." " I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical...largest sense grounded on the permanent interests of a man as a progressive being." " The only self-renunciation which utilitarians applaud is devotion... | |
| An exile from France - 1876 - 466 páginas
...The equal claim of everybody to happiness involves an equal claim to all the means of happiness." " I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical...largest sense grounded on the permanent interests of a man as a progressive being." " The only self-renunciation which utilitarians applaud is devotion... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1878 - 98 páginas
...thing independent of utility. I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions; hut it must be utility in the largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests of a man as a progressive being. Those interests, I contendauthorize the subjection of individual spontaneity... | |
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