 The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible, is that people actually see it. The only proof that a sound is audible, is that people hear it: and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence...  The Academy - Página 1971871Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Robert C. Solomon - 2001 - 368 páginas
...psychological importance of pleasure that justifies its foundation in ethical theory; the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people actually do desire /f."4 Mill identifies pleasure and happiness, often interchanging the two in his... | |
 | John M. Doris - 2002 - 298 páginas
...here recalls, perhaps with a shudder, Mill's (1979/1861: 34) infamous "proof" - "the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it." Of course nothing easily follows about what we should desire from facts about what we do desire; at... | |
 | Bina Gupta - 2002 - 294 páginas
...hear it: and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. If the end which the utilitarian doctrine proposes to itself were not, in theory and in practice, acknowledged... | |
 | Various - 2002 - 596 páginas
...hear it; and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people do actually desire it. If the end which the utilitarian doctrine proposes to itself were not, in theory and in practice, acknowledged... | |
 | G. W. Smith - 2002 - 322 páginas
...for non-arbitrarily picking out one of them. This is Mill's point when he writes, 'the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.'21 I agree. But Mill's point is not an argument, or a conceptual insight, just a challenge to the... | |
 | Mark Timmons - 2002 - 308 páginas
...and so forth for the other sources of our experience. In this manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people actually do desire it. (Mill |1863] 1979, 34) We can elaborate Mill's line of thought as follows: 1... | |
 | Gerald F Gaus - 2003 - 260 páginas
...hear it: and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. 22 The fact that everyone desires something does not show that it is desirable in the sense of worthy... | |
 | Roy Tseng - 2003 - 324 páginas
...here it: and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. If the end which the utilitarian doctrine proposes to itself were not, in theory and in practice, acknowledged... | |
 | Gerald F Gaus - 2003 - 256 páginas
...hear it: and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.22 The fact that everyone desires something does not show that it is desirable in the sense of worthy... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 2005 - 484 páginas
...hear it; and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people do actually desire it" (chapter 4). Philosophers have rejected this argument from the start, claiming that it is vitiated... | |
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