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Plato’s reason for claiming that the life of the Philosopher has more pleasure than that of the Sensualist is palpably inadequate.
The Methods of Ethics (1874)
In short, if a certain quality of human Life is that which is ultimately desirable, it must belong to human Life regarded on its psychical side, or, briefly, Consciousness.
The Methods of Ethics (1874)
Reason shows me that if my happiness is desirable and a good, the equal happiness of any other person must be equally desirable.
The Methods of Ethics (1874)
The good of any one individual is of no more importance, from the point of view...of the Universe, than the good of any other; unless, that is, there are special grounds for believing that more good is likely to be realized in the one case than in the other.
The Methods of Ethics (1874)
A universal refusal to propagate the human species would be the greatest of conceivable crimes from a Utilitarian point of view
The Methods of Ethics (1874)
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