Utilitarianism

Citas

• “There are few circumstances among those which make up the present condition of human knowledge, more unlike what might have been expected, or more significant of the backward state in which speculation on the most important subjects still lingers, than the little progress which has been made in the decision of the controversy respecting the criterion of right and wrong.”

• “The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good?”

• “Neither pains nor pleasures are homogeneous, and pain is always heterogeneous with pleasure.”

• “But there is no known Epicurean theory of life which does not assign to the pleasures of the intellect; of the feelings and imagination, and of the moral sentiments, a much higher value as pleasures than to those of mere sensation.”

• “No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness.”