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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. I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions; but it must be utility in the... "
liberty - Page 24
by john stuart mill - 1859
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National Review, Volume 8

Great Britain - 1859 - 584 pages
...by disclaiming, as a utilitarian must, any appeal to abstract right. " I regard utility," he says, " as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions ;...permanent interests of man as a progressive being." And the influence of this theory is marked throughout the book. For, starting with the assumption that...
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The Universal review, Volume 1

1859 - 662 pages
...sufficient warrant." And the basis of their principle is further stated to be not " abstract right," but " utility in the largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests of man as a progressive being." This defines the sphere of action in which society has a direct interest. An act positively hurtful...
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On Liberty

John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1859 - 216 pages
...security of others. 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. T. regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions ; but it must be utility in the largest...
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On Liberty

John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1863 - 236 pages
...security of others. 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. \J. regard utility_as_the I jjltimate_appeal_on all ethical questions^... tut -*• _it must be utility...
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Theorie der Politik: als Ergebniss einer erneuerten Prüfung ..., Volumes 1-2

Julius Fröbel - Democracy - 1864 - 770 pages
...ni$t« onbcre« als bie befreienbe ffiirfung in ben Singen. **) On Liberty. By John Stuart Mill, p. 24. „I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all...permanent interests of man as a progressive being." — ***) SDiaii wirft bem amerifanifdien ©eijlc »or fïdj im ¡Matériau«* тив ju Serlieren,...
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On Liberty, Issue 57

John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1865 - 118 pages
...thesecurity of others. 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...largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests of a man as a progressive being. Those interests, I contend, authorize the subjection of individual spontaneity...
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Reports of Commissioners on the Hours of Labor: Appointed Under Chapter 92 ...

Massachusetts. Commission on Hours of Labor - Business & Economics - 1867 - 142 pages
...Liberty, page 25 : — " 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...of utility. I regard utility as the ultimate appeal in all ethical questions ; but it must be utility in the largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 13; Volume 65

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1869 - 570 pages
...fallible being " ; and this he again repeats || in almost the same words. Then^f he says that he regards utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions ; but it must be utility grounded on the permanent interests of man as a progressive being. And in another place ** he tells...
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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

James Fitzjames Stephen - Equality - 1873 - 360 pages
...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...
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Social Architecture: Or, Reasons and Means for the Demolition and ...

Exile from France - Communism - 1876 - 472 pages
...The equal claim of everybody to happiness involves an equal claim to all the means of happiness." " I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical...largest sense grounded on the permanent interests of a man as a progressive being." " The only self-renunciation which utilitarians applaud is devotion...
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