Utilitarianism, Liberty, Representative GovernmentJ. M. Dent, 1922 - 393 páginas |
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A. D. LINDSAY absolute monarchy action administrative business admitted affairs amount appointed authority believe benefit body candidate character Christian civilisation common conduct considerable constitution cracy degree democracy desire despotism doctrine duty effect election electors equally evil exercise exist experience favour Federal feeling form of government freedom give Greatest Happiness Principle happiness House of Lords human important improvement individual influence institutions intellectual interest interference John Stuart Mill judgment justice labour legislation less liberty majority mankind means member of Parliament ment mental Mill mind mode moral nature necessary object obligation oligarchy opinion Parliament party person pleasure political popular possess practical present principle punishment purpose question reason recognised regard representative democracy representative government rule sentiment social society sufficient suffrage superior supposed things tion truth universal suffrage utilitarian utility vidual virtue vote whole wrong
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Página 4 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Página 4 - ... pleasure, and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends; and that all desirable things (which are as numerous in the utilitarian as in any other scheme) are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
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Página 77 - But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
Página 73 - Secondly, the principle requires liberty of tastes and pursuits, of framing the plan of our life to suit our own character, of doing as we like, subject to such consequences as may follow •without impediment from our fellow-creatures, so long as what we do does not harm them, even though they should think our conduct foolish, perverse, or wrong.
Página 5 - It is quite compatible with the principle of utility to recognise the fact, that some kinds , of pleasure are more desirable and more valuable than others, It would be absurd that while, in estimating all other things, quality is considered as well as quantity, the estimation of pleasures should be supposed to depend on quantity alone.
Página 73 - ... long as what we do does not harm them, even though they should think our conduct foolish, perverse, or wrong. Thirdly, from this liberty of each individual follows the liberty, within the same limits, of combination among individuals; freedom to unite for any purpose not involving harm to others: the persons combining being supposed to be of full age and not forced or deceived.
Página xiii - Now, it is an unquestionable fact, that those who are equally acquainted with, and equally capable of appreciating and enjoying both, do give a most marked preference to the manner of existence which employs their higher faculties.
Página 7 - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
Página 71 - It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that this doctrine is meant to apply only to human beings in the maturity of their faculties. We are not speaking of children, or of young persons below the age which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood. . . . Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others, must be protected against their own actions as well as against external injury. For the same reason we may leave out of consideration those backward states of society...