...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...