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... common ground of obligation . They either assume the ordinary precepts of morals as of à priori authority , or they lay down as the com- mon groundwork of those maxims , some generality much less obviously authoritative than the maxims ...
... common ground of obligation . They either assume the ordinary precepts of morals as of à priori authority , or they lay down as the com- mon groundwork of those maxims , some generality much less obviously authoritative than the maxims ...
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... common charges against utilitarianism : and , as has been pointedly remarked by an able writer , the same sort of persons , and often the very same persons , denounce the theory ' as im- practicably dry when the word utility precedes ...
... common charges against utilitarianism : and , as has been pointedly remarked by an able writer , the same sort of persons , and often the very same persons , denounce the theory ' as im- practicably dry when the word utility precedes ...
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John Stuart Mill. means these , among other things . Yet the common herd , including the herd of writers , not only in news- papers and periodicals , but in books of weight and pretension , are perpetually falling into this shallow ...
John Stuart Mill. means these , among other things . Yet the common herd , including the herd of writers , not only in news- papers and periodicals , but in books of weight and pretension , are perpetually falling into this shallow ...
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... common with him . If they ever fancy they would , it is only in cases of unhappiness so extreme , that to escape from it they would exchange their lot for almost any other , however undesirable in their own eyes . A being of higher ...
... common with him . If they ever fancy they would , it is only in cases of unhappiness so extreme , that to escape from it they would exchange their lot for almost any other , however undesirable in their own eyes . A being of higher ...
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... this very common change , voluntarily choose the lower description of pleasures in preference to the higher . I believe that before they devote themselves exclusively to the one , they have already become 14 UTILITARIANISM .
... this very common change , voluntarily choose the lower description of pleasures in preference to the higher . I believe that before they devote themselves exclusively to the one , they have already become 14 UTILITARIANISM .
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