 In the case of abstinences indeed — of things which people forbear to do from moral considerations, though the consequences in the particular case might be beneficial — it would be unworthy of an intelligent agent not to be consciously aware that...  Utilitarianism - Pagina 28di John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 120 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | John Stuart Mill - 1873 - 408 pagine
...considerations, though the consequences in the particular case might be beneficial, — it would be unworthy of an intelligent agent not to be consciously aware that the action is of a elass, which, if practised generally, would be generally injurious, and that this is the ground of... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1874 - 404 pagine
...considerations, though the consequences in the particular case might be beneficial, — it would be unworthy of an intelligent agent not to be consciously...that the action is of a class, which, if practised generallv, would be generally injurious, and that this is the ground of the obligation to abstain from... | |
 | Henry Hughes - 1890 - 392 pagine
...considerations, though the consequences in the particular case might be beneficial — it would be unworthy of an intelligent agent not to be consciously...the ground of the obligation to abstain from it." l The furtherance, then, in some way of social union and corporate well-being may be said to be what... | |
 | Alan Donagan - 1977 - 294 pagine
...abstinences [Mill wrote] ... though the consequences in the particular case might be beneficial—it would be unworthy of an intelligent agent not to be consciously...is the ground of the obligation to abstain from it. 43 [Emphasis mine.] Mandelbaum has acknowledged this, although he has pointed out that Mill allowed... | |
 | Richard B. Brandt - 1992 - 416 pagine
...moral considerations, though the consequences in the particular case might be beneficial -, it would be unworthy of an intelligent agent not to be consciously aware that the action is of a class which, if practiced generally, would be generally injurious, and that this is the ground of the obligation to... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1998 - 376 pagine
...considerations, though the consequences in the particular case might be beneficial- — it would be unworthy of an intelligent agent not to be consciously aware that the action is of a kind which, if practised generally, would be generally injurious, and that this is the ground of the... | |
 | Claudia Card - 2005 - 302 pagine
...considerations, though the consequences in the particular case might be beneficial — it would be unworthy of an intelligent agent not to be consciously...is the ground of the obligation to abstain from it" (U 344). It is not clear that Mill intended this kind of argument to apply to all kinds of acts, since... | |
 | Various - 2002 - 596 pagine
...considerations, though the consequences in the particular case might be beneficial — it would be unworthy of an intelligent agent not to be consciously aware that the action is of a class which, if practiced generally, would be generally injurious, and that this is the ground of the obligation to... | |
 | Linda C. Raeder - 2002 - 418 pagine
...Mill also explains that the "ground of the obligation" to abstain from a certain action is the fact that "the action is of a class which, if practised generally, would be generally injurious ..." This entails no greater regard for the public interest than any other moral system, for all of... | |
 | Henry R. West - 2004 - 240 pagine
...moral considerations, though the consequences in the particular case might be beneficial - it would be unworthy of an intelligent agent not to be consciously aware that the action is of a class which, if practiced generally, would be generally injurious, and that this is the ground of the obligation to... | |
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