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" The multiplication of happiness is, according to the utilitarian ethics, the object of virtue : the occasions on which any person (except one in a thousand) has it in his power to do this on an extended scale... "
Morals: A Treatise on the Psycho-sociological Bases of Ethics - Page 109
by Guillaume L. Duprat - 1903 - 382 pages
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Vindication of the French revolution of February, 1848; in reply to Lord ...

John Stuart Mill - 1873 - 410 pages
...else. 'The multiplication of happiness is, according to the utilitarian ethics, the object of virtue : the occasions on which any person (except one in a...be a public benefactor — are but exceptional; and 0n these occasions alone is he called on to consider public utility : in every other case, private...
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Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and ..., Volume 3

John Stuart Mill - 1882 - 444 pages
...else. The multiplication of happiness is, according to the utilitarian ethics, the object of virtue : the occasions on which any person (except one in a...exceptional ; and on these occasions alone is he called on lo consider public utility : in every other case, private utility, the interest or happiness of some...
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A Students' Manual of Ethical Philosophy: Adapted from the German of G. Von ...

Georg von Gizycki - 1889 - 592 pages
...authorized expectation — of any one else. The multiplication of happiness is ... the object of virtue. The occasions on which any person (except one in a...in other words, to be a public benefactor, are but exceptions." Another objection is that, as long as the nature of things remains the same, the relation...
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Principles of Natural and Supernatural Morals, Volume 1

Henry Hughes - 1890 - 392 pages
...2 " The multiplication of happiness is, according to the utilitarian ethics, the object of virtue : the occasions on which any person (except one in a...to do this on an extended scale, in other words, to 1 Utilitarianism, p. 17. 2 Id., p. 50. be a public benefactor, are but exceptional ; and on those occasions...
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Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill - 1895 - 146 pages
...to the f utilitarian ethics, the object of virtue":! j the occasions on which any person (excepr / one in a thousand) has it in his power to do this on an extended scale, in other j words to be a public benefactor, are but j exceptional ; and on these occasions alone is he called...
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Utilitarianism, Liberty, Representative Government

John Stuart Mill - 1922 - 432 pages
...else. T The multiplication of happiness is, according to the~atilitarian ethics, the object of virtue: the occasions on which any person (except one in a thousand) has it an his power to do this on an extended scale, in other words to be a public benefactor, are but exceptional;...
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The Great Legal Philosophers: Selected Readings in Jurisprudence

Clarence Morris - 1971 - 588 pages
...else. The multiplication of happiness is, according to the utilitarian ethics, the object of virtue: the occasions on which any person (except one in a...has it in his power to do this on an extended scale, . . . are but exceptional; and on these occasions alone is he called on to consider public utility;...
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Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Mill on Utilitarianism

Roger Crisp - 1997 - 260 pages
...1 14 The multiplication of happiness is, according to the utilitarian ethics, the object of virtue: the occasions on which any person (except one in a...has it in his power to do this on an extended scale ... are but exceptional; and on these occasions alone is he called on to consider public utility. This...
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Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds

Daniel C. Dennett - 1998 - 438 pages
...John Stuart Mill, in Utilitarianism, 1863, thought he could defend his utilitarianism thus: ". . . the occasions on which any person (except one in a thousand) has it in his power to ... be a public benefactor . . . are but exceptional; and on these occasions alone is he called on...
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John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought: Social ethics

John Stuart Mill - 1998 - 376 pages
...that of the particular individuals with whom the agent is concerned, and the occasions are exceptional on which any person (except one in a thousand) has it in his power to be a public benefactor. 3 On such an occasion the agent will not, it is true, be able to desire the...
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