Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

UTILITARIANISM(CHAPTER2) 933 Interior, Crystal Palace.The palace was a shrine to science, industrialization, and progress. This ...

934 JOHNSTUARTMILL and social arrangements should place the happiness, or (as speaking practically it may be called) the interes ...

UTILITARIANISM(CHAPTER2) 935 indeed—of things which people forbear to do from moral considerations, though the consequences in t ...

936 JOHNSTUARTMILL by sentimentalist. But on the whole, a doctrine which brings prominently forward the interest that mankind ha ...

UTILITARIANISM(CHAPTER2) 937 things to which our conduct can be instrumental; and inasmuch as any, even uninten- tional, deviati ...

938 JOHNSTUARTMILL endeavour to test each individual action directly by the first principle, is another. It is a strange notion ...

UTILITARIANISM(CHAPTER3) 939 afford a free scope for the action of personal desires and partialities. We must remember that only ...

940 JOHNSTUARTMILL and however imperfect may be their own practice, they desire and commend all conduct in others towards themse ...

UTILITARIANISM(CHAPTER3) 941 duty is an objective reality is stronger than the belief that God is so; yet the belief in God, apa ...

942 JOHNSTUARTMILL of duty, when associated with utility, would appear equally arbitrary; if there were no leading department of ...

UTILITARIANISM(CHAPTER3) 943 sources of opposition of interest, and levelling those inequalities of legal privilege between indi ...

944 JOHNSTUARTMILL CHAPTER4: OFWHATSORT OFPROOF THEPRINCIPLE OFUTILITYISSUSCEPTIBLE It has already been remarked, that questions ...

UTILITARIANISM(CHAPTER4) 945 desirable in itself, even although, in the individual instance, it should not produce those other d ...

946 JOHNSTUARTMILL Virtue, according to the utilitarian conception, is a good of this description. There was no original desire ...

UTILITARIANISM(CHAPTER4) 947 them, or expects to derive from their fulfilment; and persists in acting on them, even though these ...

948 JOHNSTUARTMILL CHAPTER5: ON THECONNECTIONBETWEEN JUSTICE ANDUTILITY In all ages of speculation, one of the strongest obstacl ...

UTILITARIANISM(CHAPTER5) 949 resolved also the main problem: if the latter, we shall have to seek for some other mode of investi ...

950 JOHNSTUARTMILL has done good, and evil from those to whom he does or has done evil. The precept of returning good for evil h ...

UTILITARIANISM(CHAPTER5) 951 there are as many questions of justice as there are differences of opinion about expedi- ency. Some ...

952 JOHNSTUARTMILL we think that a person is bound in justice to do a thing, it is an ordinary form of lan- guage to say, that h ...