The Economy of HappinessLittle, Brown,, 1906 - 533 σελίδες |
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acquired characters adapted alternative altruism applied assertion attain attempt average beneficent called capital capitalist cause common sense competition conduct conjunction conservatism consuming consumption contingency curve definition degree desiderata determined diminishing diminishing returns discussion distinction distribution doctrine dogma duction economy effect efficiency employed equal existence expectation experience express factor of production greater Hence hours of labor human improvement inalienable rights increase individual industry inference inheritance intensity interest intuitionism involved kind knowledge labor cost laissez faire Laplace's Formula less mammals maximum means means of production ment method mind mode moral nation nature object observed obvious oligarchy operation output pantocracy persons pleasure and pain population presumption of happiness principle probability production proposition race reason relation result right and wrong selection self-support sentient simply socialism society sumption Suppose surplus of happiness term things tion use-judgment utilitarian utility wages wealth words
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Σελίδα 344 - That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self -protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
Σελίδα 533 - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Σελίδα 345 - It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that this doctrine is meant to apply only to human beings in the maturity of their faculties. We are not speaking of children, or of young persons below the age which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood.
Σελίδα 108 - ... standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire: but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while.
Σελίδα 397 - tis all a cheat : Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage ! None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain ; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give. I'm tired with waiting for this chemic gold, Which fools us young,...
Σελίδα 344 - That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise or even right.
Σελίδα 61 - ... instances differ is the effect or the cause or an indispensable part of the cause of the phenomenon.
Σελίδα 95 - I do not argue against the existence of any one thing that we can apprehend, either by sense or reflection. That the things I see with mine eyes and touch with my hands do exist, really exist, I make not the least question.
Σελίδα 410 - Hand in hand with this centralisation, or this expropriation of many capitalists by few, develop, on an ever extending scale, the co-operative form of the labour-process, the conscious...
Σελίδα 253 - I mean that principle, which, like the principle of utility, approves or disapproves of any action, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question...