Social Statics, Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified: And the First of Them DevelopedWilliams and Norgate, 1868 - 523 páginas |
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... rule we may attain our desire . " " Whatever is expedient is right ; " is one of the last of the many replies to ... rule be , the greatest happiness to the great est number , " interposes another authority . " That , like the ...
... rule we may attain our desire . " " Whatever is expedient is right ; " is one of the last of the many replies to ... rule be , the greatest happiness to the great est number , " interposes another authority . " That , like the ...
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... rule at all , " it is replied ; " but rather an enunciation of the problem to be solved . It is your ' greatest happiness ' of which we have been so long and so fruitlessly in search ; albeit we never gave it a name . You tell us ...
... rule at all , " it is replied ; " but rather an enunciation of the problem to be solved . It is your ' greatest happiness ' of which we have been so long and so fruitlessly in search ; albeit we never gave it a name . You tell us ...
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... rule , principle , or axiom , is valuable only in so far as the words in which it is expressed have a definite mean- ing . The terms used must be universally accepted in the same sense , otherwise the proposition will be liable to such ...
... rule , principle , or axiom , is valuable only in so far as the words in which it is expressed have a definite mean- ing . The terms used must be universally accepted in the same sense , otherwise the proposition will be liable to such ...
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... rule , it becomes needful to decide which of these opinions is correct ; and further to determine the exact boundary between the use and abuse of every faculty . -Which is most truly an element in the desired felicity , content or ...
... rule , it becomes needful to decide which of these opinions is correct ; and further to determine the exact boundary between the use and abuse of every faculty . -Which is most truly an element in the desired felicity , content or ...
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... rules for the obtainment of " greatest happiness , " is a task far beyond the ability of any finite mind . § 4 ... rule , springing out of , and necessary to , a bad state of man . The progress from these is in all cases the same ...
... rules for the obtainment of " greatest happiness , " is a task far beyond the ability of any finite mind . § 4 ... rule , springing out of , and necessary to , a bad state of man . The progress from these is in all cases the same ...
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