...by disclaiming, as a utilitarian must, any appeal to abstract right. " I regard utility," he says, " as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions ;...permanent interests of man as a progressive being." And the influence of this theory is marked throughout the book. For, starting with the assumption that...

...sufficient warrant." And the basis of their principle is further stated to be not " abstract right," but " utility in the largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests of man as a progressive being." This defines the sphere of action in which society has a direct interest. An act positively hurtful...

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...could be derived to my argument from the idea of abstract right, as a thing independent of utility. I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical...largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests of a man as a progressive being. Those interests, I contend, authorize the subjection of individual spontaneity...

...idea of abstract right, as a thing independent of utility. I regard utility as the ultimate appeal in all ethical questions ; but it must be utility in...permanent interests of man as a progressive being." Guizot reveals the other on pages 114 and 137 of " The History of Civilization " : — " This fact...

...fallible being " ; and this he again repeats || in almost the same words. Then^f he says that he regards utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions ; but it must be utility grounded on the permanent interests of man as a progressive being. And in another place ** he tells...

...to his ' argument from the idea of abstract right as a thing independent of utility/ He adds : ' I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical...largest sense grounded on the permanent interests of a man as a progressive being.' He concludes by specifying ' the appropriate region of human liberty....

...The equal claim of everybody to happiness involves an equal claim to all the means of happiness." " I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical...largest sense grounded on the permanent interests of a man as a progressive being." " The only self-renunciation which utilitarians applaud is devotion...

...The equal claim of everybody to happiness involves an equal claim to all the means of happiness." " I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical...largest sense grounded on the permanent interests of a man as a progressive being." " The only self-renunciation which utilitarians applaud is devotion...

...thing independent of utility. I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions; hut it must be utility in the largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests of a man as a progressive being. Those interests, I contendauthorize the subjection of individual spontaneity...