| William Arthur - 1887 - 494 páginas
...will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections...the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is because they know only their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both... | |
| 1890 - 72 páginas
...will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections...qualify. It is better to be a human being dissatisfied that a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or... | |
| William Stanley Jevons - 1890 - 346 páginas
...hardly deigns to count the lower pleasures as worth putting in the scale; it is better, he thinks, to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied;...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. If the pig or the fool is of a different opinion," it is because they only know their own side of the... | |
| John Clark Murray - 1891 - 424 páginas
...Mill puts it in an oftenquoted passage, " it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than to be 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... | |
| John Dewey - 1891 - 300 páginas
...persuaded that the fool, the dunce or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs It is better to be a human being dissatisfied, than a pig satisfied; better to be a Socrates dissatisfied, than a fool satisfied. And if the fool or the pig are of a different opinion,... | |
| John Dewey - 1891 - 288 páginas
...persuaded that the fool, the dunce or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs It is better to be a human being dissatisfied, than a pig satisfied; better to be a Socrates dissatisfied, than a fool satisfied. And if the fool or the pig are of a different opinion,... | |
| William De Witt Hyde - 1892 - 232 páginas
...says that the pleasures which result from the exercise of the higher faculties are to be preferred. " It is better to be a human being dissatisfied, than...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied." Whether it is possible to stretch, and qualify, and attenuate the conception of pleasure sc as to make... | |
| John Alexander Stewart - 1892 - 496 páginas
...environment, that we can distinguish pleasures as differing qualitatively (тш »tí«), and say with Mill, ' It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied' (Utilitarianism, p. 14). It is sometimes urged that Mill has no right 'on his own principles ' to say... | |
| Frederick Ryland - 1893 - 266 páginas
...any pleasures into quantitative. It is not open to a consistent hedonist to say with Mill l that " it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied." We may, as systematic empirical hedonists, hold that " it is quite compatible with the principle of... | |
| James Seth - 1894 - 488 páginas
...nature, with its higher demand of happiness, carries with it inevitably a certain discontent. Yet " it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than...the fool or the pig is of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both... | |
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