 | Annie Riley Hale - 1916 - 270 páginas
...some of their most eminent supporters dissenting. Even John Stuart Mill said : "I forego any advantage derived to my argument from the idea of abstract right as a thing independent of utility, which I regard as the ultimate appeal in all ethical questions ; but it must be utility in the largest... | |
 | Thomas Whittaker - 1916 - 154 páginas
...perfectly clear decision. The renunciation, in the introductory chapter of Mill's Liberty, of any advantage "from the idea of abstract right, as a thing independent of utility," must be itself in turn disclaimed ; though this does not in the least deprive Mill's arguments of their... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1922 - 432 páginas
...no longer admissible as a means to their own good, and justifiable only for the security of others. It is proper to state that I forego any advantage...abstract right, as a thing independent of utility. Ijregard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions; but it must be utility in the largest... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1926 - 88 páginas
...their owirgSottrghd JnetlBable only for the security of Otheis. II is proper to state that I foregc any advantage which could be derived to my argument...right, as a thing independent of utility. I regard utilitv as the ultimate appeal on all etincal qucstions ; but it must be utility in the Taj-peat. Rr-flse.... | |
 | Tucson Joel Feinberg Professor of Philosophy University of Arizona - 1986 - 450 páginas
...divorce (as it has since come to be called) in this passage. 28. On Liberty, chap. I, para. 1 1, ". . .1 forego any advantage which could be derived to my argument from the idea of natural right as a thing independent of utility." 29. Ibid., chap. I, para. 9. 30. Perhaps the leading... | |
 | Thomas A. Spragens - 1990 - 304 páginas
...different — and I think more secure — philosophical foundations. As is well known, Mill chose to "forego any advantage which could be derived to my...the idea of abstract right as a thing independent of utility."1 1 The difficulty with this posture, however, is that it seems to leave the status of individual... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1991 - 676 páginas
...philosophy. (A further point is worthy of note in connexion with this criticism. In Liberty, Mill declares that 'I forego any advantage which could be derived...idea of abstract right, as a thing independent of utility'.7 This declaration has often been taken to mean8 that Mill is refusing in advance to regard... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1991 - 312 páginas
...may be considered as in its nonage. ' He then disclaims any advantage which could be derived to his 'argument from the idea of abstract right as a thing independent of utility. ' He adds : ' I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions ; but it must be utility... | |
 | Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins - 1995 - 244 páginas
...aspects of drug control in a free society dedicated to individual liberty. But unlike Mill, who declared "I forego any advantage which could be derived to my argument from the idea of abstract right" (Mill, 1859/1910, p. 74), Szasz maintains that we should regard "the freedom of choosing our diets... | |
 | Scott Lehmann - 1995 - 263 páginas
...utility. Early in On liberty, his celebrated defense of individual rights, Mill declares, "I forgo any advantage which could be derived to my argument...as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions." 18 Of course, one may wonder if Mill wasn't mistaken about the consistency of On liberty with Utilitarianism.... | |
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It is proper to state that I forego any advantage which could be derived to my argument from the idea of abstract right, as a thing independent of utility. 
