Mill Quotes Flashcards
‘There exists no moral system under which there do not arise…
Unequivocal cases of conflicting obligation’
‘We must remember that only in these cases of conflict between secondary principles…
Is it requisite that first principles should be appealed to’
Applying act utilitarianism like ‘navigating…
A complex Voyage at sea without any navigational aids’
‘By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain; by unhappiness,
pain and the privation of pleasure’
‘Better to be a human dissatisfied than a…
Pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.’
‘Pleasures of the intellect, feeling and imagination are…
more valuable in terms of pleasures than those of mere sensation’
‘Pleasure, and freedom from pain, …
Are the only things desirable as ends.’
Utilitarianism requires a person to be ‘as strictly impartial as…
A disinterested and benevolent spectator’
