 The comparison of the Epicurean life to that of beasts is felt as degrading, precisely because a beast's pleasures do not satisfy a human being's conceptions of happiness. Human beings have faculties more elevated than the animal appetites, and when once...  The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese - Page 58edited by - 2007 - 280 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | 1861 - 882 pages
...degrading, precisely because a beast's pleasures do not satisfy a human being's conceptions of happiness. Human beings have faculties more elevated than the...happiness which does not include their gratification. I do not, indeed, consider the Epicureans to have been by any means faultless in drawing out their... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Decision making - 1863 - 120 pages
...degrading, precisely because a beast's pleasures do not satisfy a human being's conceptions of happiness. Human beings have faculties more elevated than the...happiness which does not include their gratification. I do not, indeed, consider the Epicureans to have been by any means faultless in drawing out their... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism - 1864 - 108 pages
...degrading, precisely because a beast's pleasures do not satisfy a human being's conceptions of happiness. Human beings have faculties^ more elevated than the...happiness which does not include their gratification^ I do not, indeed, consider the Epicureans to have been by any means faultless in drawing out their... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - History - 1864 - 406 pages
...degrading, precisely because a beast's pleasures do not satisfy a human being's conceptions of happiness. Human beings have faculties more elevated than the...and, when once made conscious of them, do not regard any thing as happiness which does not include then* gratification. I do not, indeed, consider the Epicureans... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1863 - 550 pages
...precisely because ' a beast's pleasures do not satisfy a human being's conceptions ' of happiness. Human beings have faculties more elevated than ' the...happiness which does not include their ' gratification.' The author proceeds to consider and to answer various objections which have been made to the theory... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - Philosophy, English - 1874 - 330 pages
...degrading, precisely because a beast's pleasures do not satisfy a human being's conception of happiness. Human beings have faculties more elevated than the...and when once made conscious of them, do not regard any thing as happiness which does not include their gratification There is no known Epicurean theory... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - Philosophy, English - 1874 - 348 pages
...degrading, precisely because a beast's pleasures do not satisfy a human being's conception of happiness. Human beings have faculties more elevated than the...and when once made conscious of them, do not regard any thing as happiness which does not include their gratification There is no known Epicurean theory... | |
 | Exile from France - Communism - 1876 - 472 pages
...over bodily pleasure chiefly in the greater permanency, safety , uncostliness, etc., of the former." " Human beings have faculties more elevated than the...happiness which does not include their gratification." In order to illustrate still more fully Mr. Mill's conception of the true nature of happiness, we requote... | |
 | An exile from France - Communism - 1876 - 466 pages
...over bodily pleasure chiefly in the greater permanency, safety , uncostliness, etc., of the former." " Human beings have faculties more elevated than the...happiness which does not include their gratification." In order to illustrate still more fully Mr. Mill's conception of the true nature of happiness, we requote... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Socialism - 1879 - 288 pages
...degrading, precisely because a beast's pleasures do not satisfy a human being's conceptions of happiness. Human beings have faculties more elevated than the...happiness which does not include their gratification. I do not, indeed, consider the Epicureans to have been by any means faultless in drawing out their... | |
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