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 stronger, even without express inculcation,... The Nineteenth Century - Seite 4981896Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1861 - 882 Seiten
...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 - 1863 - 120 Seiten
...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 - 1864 - 108 Seiten
...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 - 1864 - 406 Seiten
...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... | |
| Henry Allon - 1868 - 670 Seiten
...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... | |
| Simon Somerville Laurie - 1868 - 178 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1872 - 832 Seiten
...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 - 1875 - 710 Seiten
...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 - 1876 - 636 Seiten
...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 - 1879 - 288 Seiten
...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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