 Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.  Essays in Political and Moral Philosophy - Página 44por Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie - 1879 - 483 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Don Ross - 1999 - 392 páginas
...another, merely as a pleasure, except its being greater in amount, there is but one possible answer. Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more... | |
 | Jerome Neu - 2000 - 354 páginas
...much emphasized by GE Moore [1903] in his critique of MilLi On the question of numbers. Mill tells us: "Of two pleasures. if there be one to which all or...to prefer it. that is the more desirable pleasure" i 532i. This becomes his standard for "quality" of pleasure. But note that what majority rule seems... | |
 | Burton F. Porter - 2001 - 336 páginas
...lower? Mill's answer is that the better pleasure is the one chosen by the majority of people. He wrote, "Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or...to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure." The choices of experienced people, then, can be safely taken as the index of higher quality since no... | |
 | Sana Loue - 2000 - 278 páginas
...another, merely as a pleasure, except its being in greater amount, there is but one possible answer. Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or...to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. If one of the two is, by those who are competently acquainted with both, placed so far above the other... | |
 | Janet McCracken - 2001 - 362 páginas
...question arises about pleasure quality and who uses the following notoriously ill-thought standard: "Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all, or...feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the most desirable pleasure." 13 The "expert" conducting the "test" to which Mill appeals has, then, by... | |
 | Paola Cavalieri - 2003 - 198 páginas
...forward a suggestion: the recourse to the method of the "competent judge." "Of two pleasures," he says, "if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference . . . that is the more desirable pleasure." 61 With some variations, such method is still employed... | |
 | Linda C. Raeder - 2002 - 418 páginas
...in the estimation of pleasures. Mill proposes his celebrated test for the evaluation of pleasures: "Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or...to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. ... [It is an] unquestionable fact that those who are equally acquainted with, and equally capable... | |
 | Bina Gupta - 2002 - 294 páginas
...another, merely as a pleasure, except its being greater in amount, there is but one possible answer. Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or...to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. If one of the two is, by those who are competently acquainted with both, placed so far above the other... | |
 | Various - 2002 - 596 páginas
...another, merely as a pleasure, except its being greater in amount, there is but one possible answer. Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or...to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. If one of the two is, by those who are competently acquainted with both, placed so far above the other... | |
 | Mark Timmons - 2002 - 308 páginas
...another, merely as a pleasure, except its being greater in amount, there is but one possible answer. Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or...to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. If one of the two is, by those who are competently acquainted with both, placed so far above the other... | |
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