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id: 29917
title: Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications
author: Thornton, William Thomas
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  mankind, the utilitarian idea of the greatest possible happiness, or, at virtue and morality, right and wrong, are to continue to mean anything person; (2) right equally absolute to dispose similarly of the produce venture to think, need less store be set by that right in consequence of laws as ought to exist,'' what had previously appeared probable is conceivable that the large general causes assumed to regulate human continually taking place in those other general causes which constitute of abstract qualities all our general or class notions are equally ideas different thoughts or ideas of the mind'' is, as he says, sufficiently animated creature, may possibly be directly from God. One thing certain natural laws, it always remains possible for miracles to happen. self-acting forces--equally whether it be the author or merely the laws of universal human nature evidently cannot serve as materials, that the particular generation of human beings at any time existing


id: 27597
title: The English Utilitarians, Volume 1 (of 3)
author: Stephen, Leslie
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  this time for teaching logic.[209] Bentham was set to read Watt''s [201] The main authority for Bentham''s Life is Bowring''s account in the reference to it will show that Bentham by this time took the Voltairean At this time, Bentham says, that his was ''truly a miserable life.''[226] groundless.''[244] Bentham apparently argued that a man who did not like ''rights of man'' and ''equality'' than Bentham''s thoroughly scientific Bentham''s work would supply the principles and the classification. during Peel''s law reforms at this time Bentham frequently communicated general terms that Bentham founded not a doctrine but a method: and that Bentham''s general principles may be very simply stated. But I have now followed Bentham far enough to consider the more general Bentham''s man is not the partly of works published for the first time from Bentham''s MSS.; and Bentham--written between 1786 and 1789, first appeared in the _Works_ Bentham''s principles are sufficiently stated in his published


id: 25937
title: Studies in Literature and History
author: Lyall, Alfred Comyn, Sir
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  of human life, very present to the minds of men familiar with battle service of her fiction, she was making a distinct attempt, as Mr. Raleigh points out, to bring romance into closer relation with great eighteenth-century school of English novelists, with Richardson selective hand of Time had been at work for generations, developing line, as writers of letters that have great original and intrinsic first-class letter-writing, like poetry, has been inspired by the although fine letter-writers, like poets, are few and far between, yet upon the great events of contemporary history, like the French War, or interpreting Indian life and ideas to the English public in this form why great wars produce so little heroic verse: it may be questioned from the great world of their day that important changes in manners sketches of the state of English society at different periods, by way =Letter-writing (English) in the Nineteenth Century=, 34-75.


id: 25788
title: The English Utilitarians, Volume 2 (of 3) James Mill
author: Stephen, Leslie
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  In questions of foreign policy, of law reform, of political economy, great social changes which were bringing new classes into political shown, depends upon ''the law of human nature''[85] that ''a man, if ''grand governing law of human nature'' that we desire such power as state, the fact that the theories were held is important. The difference is that Malthus regards evil in general not as a sort population when it follows in its natural order is both a great sole question is,'' says Malthus,[261] ''what is this principle? expansive force of population is, in a sense, the great motive power another thing to explain each set of facts in turn by theories which Ricardo''s doctrine, then, is Malthus carried out more logically. true nature and influence of great social processes, and in practice the others state the first principles embodied in Malthus''s theory of [297] Malthus admits the general principle of free trade, but supports


id: 11224
title: Utilitarianism
author: Mill, John Stuart
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  of things upon their happiness, the principle of utility, or as Bentham Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable standard of morality, and of the very meaning of the words right and the supreme law of morals, I answer, that an utilitarian who believes in happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes pain, but that the will is a different thing from desire; that a person Justice, only a particular kind or branch of general utility, and think we think that a person is bound in justice to do a thing, it is an the term appeared generally to involve the idea of a personal right--a right in some person, correlative to the moral obligation--constitutes not place the distinction between justice and morality in general where principle of utility, if it be not that ''happiness'' and ''desirable'' are


id: 38138
title: Socialism
author: Mill, John Stuart
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  great increase of electoral power which the Act places within the SOCIALIST OBJECTIONS TO THE PRESENT ORDER OF SOCIETY. present exist in society as part of their case, whether these are society in respect to Property and the Production and Distribution of that it is possible in our present state of society to develop, to produce a repugnance for work--a disgust for labor. THE SOCIALIST OBJECTIONS TO THE PRESENT ORDER OF SOCIETY EXAMINED. of property in anything which is the product of human labor and a new order of society, in which private property and individual produce of the community''s labor as any other member of it; he would regard to the great majority of the producing classes. many different kinds of work required in every society are very or not of labor, the society divides the remainder of the produce For instance, in early states of society, the right of property did


