Introduction to the Study of the Works of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 1William Tait, 1843 - 83 pagine |
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Pagina 60 - Good old plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can,'
Pagina 25 - To prove that the immoral action is a miscalculation of self-interest ; to show how erroneous an estimate the vicious man makes of pains and pleasures, is the purpose of the intelligent moralist. Unless he can do this he does nothing ; for, as has been stated above, for a man not to pursue what he deems likely to produce to him the greatest sum of enjoyment, is in the very nature of things impossible.
Pagina 55 - Thames westward ; and for ascertaining the rates of water-carriage upon the said river ; and for the better regulation and government of seamen in the merchant service ; and also to amend so much of an Act made during the reign of King George I. as relates to the better preservation of salmon in the River Ribble ; and to regulate fees in trials and assizes at nisi prius,
Pagina 27 - Dream not that men will move their little finger to serve you, unless their advantage in so doing be obvious to them. Men never did so, and never will while human nature is made of its present materials.
Pagina 57 - Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That all and every Person and Persons...
Pagina 7 - I question whether, among all the instances in which a borrower and a lender of money have been brought together upon the stage, from the days of Thespis to the present, there ever was one, in which the former was not recommended to favour in some shape or other — either to admiration, or to love, or to pity, or to all three ; — and the other, the man of thrift, consigned to infamy.
Pagina 22 - ... likely to lead us astray. What a man wills to do, or what he pleases to do, may be far from giving him enjoyment; yet, shall we say that in doing it, he is not following his own pleasure! A man drinks himself into a state of intoxication : here, whatever may be the ultimate balance of happiness, people can at least imagine present enjoyment, and will admit that the individual is pursuing what he calls his pleasure. A native of Japan, when lie is offended, stabs himself to prove the intensity...
Pagina 19 - ... remaining a vacuum, be filled with unhappiness, positive suffering, in magnitude, intensity, and duration taken together, the greatest which it is in the power of human nature to endure. " ' Take from your 2000, and give to your 2001 all the happiness you find your 2000 in possession of: insert, in the room of the happiness you have taken out, unhappiness in as large a quantity as the receptacle will contain: to the aggregate amount of the happiness possessed by the 4001 taken together, will...
Pagina 21 - Thus, that the square of the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, was an experimental discovery, or why did the discoverer sacrifice a hecatomb when he made out its proof ?
Pagina 19 - ... contain : to the aggregate amount of the happiness possessed by the 4001 taken together will the result be net profit ? on the contrary, the whole profit will have given place to loss. How so? because...