Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

shown in the preceding Proposition that from this common property of particular things we can have only a very inadequate knowle ...

INTRODUCTION 921 pursuit of this end. The end had ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest in the means? ...

PROPOSITION 36:Inadequate and confused ideas follow by the same necessity as adequate, or clear and distinct, ideas. Proof: All ...

922 JOHNSTUARTMILL experienced both. Presumably anyone who has both wallowed in the mud and studied philosophy would prefer the ...

mind; that is, insofar as he has the ideas which are in the human mind. Therefore, the mind (Cor. Pr. 11, II) necessarily percei ...

UTILITARIANISM(CHAPTER1) 923 (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1969); John Skorupski, ed.,The Cambridge Com- panion to Mill(Cambridge: Ca ...

(I have explained in Sch. Pr. 17, II what an image is.) If this number be exceeded, these images begin to be confused, and if th ...

The difficulty is not avoided by having recourse to the popular theory of a natural faculty, a sense or instinct, informing us o ...

ETHICS(II, P43) 515 adequate knowledge of the essence of things. I shall illustrate all these kinds of knowledge by one single e ...

UTILITARIANISM(CHAPTER2) 925 whose system of thought will long remain one of the landmarks in the history of philo- sophical spe ...

what standard of truth can there be that is clearer and more certain than a true idea? Indeed, just as light makes manifest both ...

926 JOHNSTUARTMILL apology is due to the philosophical opponents of utilitarianism, for even the momentary appearance of confoun ...

For we are supposing that he has seen only one of them in the evening, not both at the same time. Therefore, his imagination wil ...

UTILITARIANISM(CHAPTER2) 927 likened; and modern holders of the doctrine are occasionally made the subject of equally polite com ...

Scholium: Hence we see that God’s infinite essence and his eternity are known to all. Now since all things are in God and are co ...

928 JOHNSTUARTMILL for almost any other, however undesirable in their own eyes. A being of higher faculties requires more to mak ...

PROPOSITION 49:There is in the mind no volition, that is, affirmation and negation, except that which an idea, insofar as it is ...

UTILITARIANISM(CHAPTER2) 929 From this verdict of the only competent judges, I apprehend there can be no appeal. On a question w ...

they are able to will contrary to what they feel. Now one can easily dispel these misconcep- tions if one attends to the nature ...

930 JOHNSTUARTMILL cannot be the end of morality, or of any rational conduct. Though, even in that case, something might still b ...