 | 1861 - 882 pagine
...individuals; of which the good of the world is made up ; and the thoughts of the most virtuous man need not on these occasions travel beyond the particular...is, the legitimate and authorized expectations, of aiiy one else. The multiplication of happiness is, according to the utilitarian ethics, the object... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 108 pagine
...of individuals, of which the good of the world is made up; and the thoughts of the most virtuous man need not on these occasions travel beyond • the...that in benefiting them he „ is not violating the rights—that is, the legitimate and authorized expectations—of any one else. The multiplication... | |
 | James McCosh - 1866 - 424 pagine
...made up : and the thoughts of the most " virtuous man need not on these occasions travel be " yond the particular persons concerned, except so far "...them he is not violating the rights, that is, the legiti" mate and authorized expectations, of any one else" (li. 27). There is some truth here, but... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1867 - 132 pagine
...individuals, of which the good of the world is made up ; and the thoughts of the most virtuous man need not on these occasions travel beyond the particular...multiplication of happiness is, according to the utilitarian might inflict upon him more exquisite tortures, would it tend to clearness to speak of that rescue... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1871 - 136 pagine
...individuals, of which the good of the world is made up ; and the thoughts of the most virtuous .man need not on these occasions travel beyond the particular...multiplication of happiness is, according to the utilitarian might inflict upon him more exquisite tortures, would it tend to clearness to speak of that rescue... | |
 | A. Elley Finch - 1872 - 136 pagine
...Assuming it to be 'a true belief that God desires above all tiiings the happiness of his creatures, .... the multiplication of happiness is, according to the utilitarian ethics, the object of virtue.' — Mill's Utilitarianism, pp. 27, 31. ' We shall see that the more we investigate, the more we find... | |
 | Arthur Elley Finch - 1872 - 132 pagine
...Assuming it to be 'a true belief that God desires above all things the happiness of his creatures, .... the multiplication of happiness is, according to the utilitarian ethics, the object of virtue.' — Mill's Utilitarianism, pp. 27, 3]. ' We shall see that the more we investigate, the more we find... | |
 | James McCosh - 1880 - 486 pagine
...individuals, of which the good of the world is made up : and the thoughts of the most virtuous man need not on these occasions travel beyond the particular...legitimate and authorized expectations, of any one else." (p. 27.) There is some truth here, but it is surely far from being the full truth. The impelling motive... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1887 - 154 pagine
...individuals, of which the good of the world is made up ; and the thoughts of the most virtuous man need not on these occasions travel beyond the particular...concerned, except so far as is necessary to assure trust received from a friend, because the discharge of it would fatally injure that friend, himself... | |
 | Georg von Giźycki - 1889 - 324 pagine
...but for that of individuals, of which the good of the world is made up ; and the thoughts travel not beyond the particular persons concerned, except so...rights — that is, the legitimate and authorized expectation — of any one else. The multiplication of happiness is ... the object of virtue. The occasions... | |
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The great majority of good actions are intended not for the benefit of the world, but for that of individuals, of which the good of the world is made up; and the thoughts of the most virtuous man need not on these occasions travel beyond the particular... 
