Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them DevelopedChapman, 1851 - 476 páginas |
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... principle involves . Sup- pose men to be , as they very commonly are , at variance in their desires on some given point ; and suppose that those forming the larger party will receive a certain amount of hap- piness each , from the ...
... principle involves . Sup- pose men to be , as they very commonly are , at variance in their desires on some given point ; and suppose that those forming the larger party will receive a certain amount of hap- piness each , from the ...
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... principle , founded solely upon internal and peculiar feelings , " then is his own maxim doubly fallacious . Is not the idea , " greatest happiness , " a capricious one ? Is not that also " founded solely upon internal and peculiar ...
... principle , founded solely upon internal and peculiar feelings , " then is his own maxim doubly fallacious . Is not the idea , " greatest happiness , " a capricious one ? Is not that also " founded solely upon internal and peculiar ...
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... principle of social morality to originate in some feeling , power , or faculty of the individual . Quite in harmony with this be- lief , is the inference that as desire is found to be the incentive a A doctrine held by Aristotle and his ...
... principle of social morality to originate in some feeling , power , or faculty of the individual . Quite in harmony with this be- lief , is the inference that as desire is found to be the incentive a A doctrine held by Aristotle and his ...
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... principles of moral equilibrium can it stand . Our social edifice may be constructed with all possible labour and ingenuity , and be strongly cramped together with cunningly- devised enactments , but if there be no rectitude in its com ...
... principles of moral equilibrium can it stand . Our social edifice may be constructed with all possible labour and ingenuity , and be strongly cramped together with cunningly- devised enactments , but if there be no rectitude in its com ...
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... principle unflinchingly , in spite of every threatening evil - to give up their own power of judging what seems best , from the belief that that only is best which is abstractedly right - to say , " although appearances are against it ...
... principle unflinchingly , in spite of every threatening evil - to give up their own power of judging what seems best , from the belief that that only is best which is abstractedly right - to say , " although appearances are against it ...
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