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 | 1861 - 882 pages
...standard, will constitute the strength of the utilitarian morality. This firm foundation is that of the social feelings of mankind; the desire to be in unity with our fellow creatures, which is already a powerful principle in human nature, and happily one of those which tend to become... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Decision making - 1863 - 120 pages
...standard, will constitute the strength of the utilitarian morality. This firm foundation is that of the social feelings of mankind; the desire to be in unity with our fellow, creatures, which is already a powerful principle in j human nature, and happily one of those which tend to become... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism - 1864 - 108 pages
...standard, will constitute the strength of the utilitarian morality. This firm foundation is that of the social feelings of mankind; the desire to be in unity with our fellow creatures, which is already a powerful principle in human nature, and happily one of those which tend to become... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - History - 1864 - 406 pages
...standard, will constitute the strength of the utilitarian morality. This firm foundation is that of the social feelings of mankind ; the desire to be in unity with our fellow-creatures, which is already a powerful principle in human nature, and happily one of those which... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - Ethics - 1868 - 178 pages
...the foundation of the ultimate utilitarian sanction.' ' This firm foundation,' he says, ' is that of the social feelings of mankind ; the desire to be in unity with our fellow-creatures, which is already a powerful principle in human nature, and happily one of those which... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1868 - 670 pages
...some other similar sentiment ? Mr. Mill proceeds to make some very valuable and pregnant remarks about the social feelings of mankind, the desire to be in unity with our fellow-creatures, as the firm foundation and strength of true utilitarian morality. He speaks of the... | |
 | Theology - 1872 - 832 pages
...place in our nature. He finds a "basis of powerful natural sentiment" for the Utilitarian morality in " the social feelings of mankind, the desire to be in unity with our fellow-creatures." ' It seems strange, after we have • been so often told that the moral feelings... | |
 | Alexander Bain - Emotions - 1875 - 710 pages
...Utility (' Utilitarianism ', chap. III.). The firm foundation of the utilitarian morality, he says, is ' the social feelings of mankind ; the desire to be in unity with our fellow-creatures, which is already a powerful principle in human nature, and happily one of those which... | |
 | Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters - Science - 1876 - 636 pages
...standard, will constitute the strength ot the utilitarian morality. This firm foundation is that of the social feelings of mankind, the desire to be in unity with our fellow creatures, &c., (P. 45). " Few but those whose mind is a moral blank, could bear to lay out their course of life... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Socialism - 1879 - 288 pages
...standard, will constitute the strength of the utilitarian morality. This firm foundation is that of the social feelings of mankind ; the desire to be in unity with our fellow creatures, which is already a powerful principle in human nature, and happily one of those which tend to become... | |
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