Pure Logic and Other Minor WorksMacmillan, 1890 - 299 หน้า |
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A B C abacus ABCD abecedarium affirmative alternatives analysis Aristotle assert attributes axiom Bentham Boole chap chapter conclusion consists contain contradictory contrary copula corresponding definite denote doctrine elements equal equation evidence exactly excluded subject existence expression fact feelings geometry George Bentham give Hence identity inconsistent indirect inference induction instance J. S. Mill James Mill knowledge known law of causation Law of Duality Laws of Thought lever logical conditions logicians machine mathematical meaning metals Method of Agreement Method of Difference Mill Mill's mind moral nature negative objects paragraph philosophy pins pleasure plural term position predicate premises principle problem Professor Boole's system proposition Pure Logic qualities quantity reasoning relation resemblance result rods says self-evident side similar statement straight lines substitution syllogism symbols System of Logic things third tion treated true truth universal Utilitarian whole words
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หน้า 282 - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
หน้า 276 - 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. The principle of utility...
หน้า 281 - ... addict themselves to inferior pleasures, not because they deliberately prefer them, but because they are either the only ones to which they have access or the only ones which they are any longer capable of enjoying.
หน้า 280 - ... life of rapture; but moments of such, in an existence made up of few and transitory pains, many and various pleasures, with a decided predominance of the active over the passive, and having as the foundation of the whole not to expect more from life than it is capable of bestowing. A life thus composed, to those who have been fortunate enough to obtain it, has always appeared worthy of the name of happiness.
หน้า 283 - Men often, from infirmity of character, make their election for the nearer good, though they know it to be the less valuable; and this no less when the choice is between two bodily pleasures than when it is between bodily and mental.
หน้า 269 - Annals of the Parish. After using it as a designation for several years, he and others abandoned it from a growing dislike to anything resembling a badge or watchword of sectarian distinction. But as a name for one single opinion, not a set of...
หน้า xxiii - The uniformity in the succession of events, otherwise called the law of causation, must be received not as a law of the universe, but of that portion of it only which is within the range of our means of sure observation, with a reasonable degree of extension to adjacent cases.
หน้า 257 - It consists in ascribing the character of general truths to all propositions which are true in every instance that we happen to know of. This is the kind of induction which is natural to the mind when unaccustomed to scientific methods. The tendency, which some call an...
หน้า 276 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
หน้า 278 - It must be admitted, however, that utilitarian writers in general have placed the superiority of mental over bodily pleasures chiefly in the greater permanency, safety, uncostliness, etc., of the former, — that is, in their circumstantial advantages rather than in their intrinsic nature.