Dialogue

 1 Phileb|    conceptions of mental pleasure, happiness, and the like.~2. Pleasure
 2 Phileb|          can separate justice from happiness in the Republic.~IV. An
 3 Phileb|        simplicity of the ‘greatest happiness’ principle has been acceptable
 4 Phileb|         which does not tend to the happiness of mankind; we acknowledge
 5 Phileb|    included. The desire to promote happiness is no mean preference of
 6 Phileb|    determine their effect upon the happiness of mankind.~There is a theory
 7 Phileb|            ethics, with a greatest happiness principle or with Kant’s
 8 Phileb|            tendency to promote the happiness of mankind, or, in other
 9 Phileb|         Neither is the pleasure or happiness, which we seek, our own
10 Phileb|          for every other.’~Good or happiness or pleasure is thus regarded
11 Phileb|    dependent on the greater end of happiness, and would not be pursued,
12 Phileb|        with religion, the greatest happiness principle is in the highest
13 Phileb|           that God should will the happiness of all his creatures? and
14 Phileb|           and in working out their happiness we may be said to be ‘working
15 Phileb|            phrase of the ‘greatest happiness principle,’ it seems as
16 Phileb|           now to read ‘the noblest happiness principle,’ ‘the happiness
17 Phileb|         happiness principle,’ ‘the happiness of others principle’—the
18 Phileb|            Transfer the thought of happiness to another life, dropping
19 Phileb|        large a part of our idea of happiness in this, and the meaning
20 Phileb|    opposite. For allowing that the happiness of others is reflected on
21 Phileb|        trifling exception, and the happiness of another is very far from
22 Phileb|         more general notion of the happiness of mankind at large. But
23 Phileb|             Are we not desirous of happiness, at any rate for ourselves
24 Phileb|        benefits which the greatest happiness principle has conferred
25 Phileb|            conceptions of harmony, happiness, right, freedom, benevolence,
26 Phileb|           Act so as to promote the happiness of mankind,’ or ‘Act so
27 Phileb|           far as they tend towards happiness, we naturally ask what is
28 Phileb|    naturally ask what is meant by ‘happiness.’ For the term in the common
29 Phileb|           man in the first rank of happiness. But yet, from various circumstances,
30 Phileb|             the measure of a man’s happiness may be out of all proportion
31 Phileb|          We have already seen that happiness includes the happiness of
32 Phileb|        that happiness includes the happiness of others as well as our
33 Phileb|   unconscious as well as conscious happiness under the same word. There
34 Phileb|  subjective feeling of pleasure or happiness and the objective reality
35 Phileb|       states of human life we call happiness? which includes the lower
36 Phileb|       lower and the higher kind of happiness, and is the aim of the noblest,
37 Phileb|          is that which constitutes happiness, over and above the several
38 Phileb|        right. Or we may reply that happiness is the whole of which the
39 Phileb|        unable to distinguish them, happiness will be the mere aggregate
40 Phileb|      action there is an element of happiness, we cannot help seeing that
41 Phileb|          their tendency to promote happiness. For the explanation of
42 Phileb|          not promoted the greatest happiness of the greatest number,
43 Phileb|           cognizance. The greatest happiness principle strengthens our
44 Phileb|          in every way possible the happiness of others may be a counsel
45 Phileb|     tendency of actions to promote happiness. Whence comes the necessity
46 Phileb|          which equally tend to the happiness of mankind imposed upon
47 Phileb|        earnest in maintaining that happiness includes the happiness of
48 Phileb|        that happiness includes the happiness of others as well as of
49 Phileb|          state of the world my own happiness and that of all other men
50 Phileb|          others. Upon the greatest happiness principle it is admitted
51 Phileb| consistency I should pursue my own happiness as impartially as that of
52 Phileb|  particular case they are opposed? Happiness is said to be the ground
53 Phileb|        clearly conduces to his own happiness if it is at variance with
54 Phileb|         the tendency of actions to happiness a principle upon which we
55 Phileb|           their tendencies towards happiness? For an act which is the
56 Phileb|          act which is the cause of happiness to one person may be the
57 Phileb|            person may increase the happiness of mankind may have the
58 Phileb|          actions which tend to the happiness of mankind which may not
59 Phileb|          all right actions tend to happiness, but that they tend to happiness
60 Phileb|   happiness, but that they tend to happiness in the same degree in which
61 Phileb|            for the sake of eternal happiness,’ but doing the will of
62 Phileb|            truth. To promote their happiness is not his first object,
63 Phileb|        that of others there may be happiness in the distance, but if
64 Phileb|     distance, but if there were no happiness he would equally act as
65 Phileb|            the acknowledgment that happiness includes the happiness of
66 Phileb|        that happiness includes the happiness of others, as well as of
67 Phileb|          conscious and unconscious happiness, or between happiness the
68 Phileb|  unconscious happiness, or between happiness the energy and happiness
69 Phileb|           happiness the energy and happiness the result of the energy,
70 Phileb|         cheerfully from a greatest happiness principle. But we find that
71 Phileb|        conviction of the nature of happiness. The meaning of the word
72 Phileb|            not reject the greatest happiness principle, but it rejects
73 Phileb|         approach him. The greatest happiness of the greatest number was
74 Phileb|       differed in kind, or that by happiness he meant anything but pleasure.
75 Phileb|         such an action promote the happiness of myself, my family, my
76 Phileb|         contribute to the greatest happiness of others?’ is another form
77 Phileb|          to have weight except the happiness of a people. All parties
78 Phileb|          the ideal of the greatest happiness of mankind, especially if
79 Phileb|            will not conduce to the happiness of mankind, though true
80 Phileb|          feeling into the greatest happiness principle takes away from
81 Phileb|            that he may promote the happiness of mankind, but for the
82 Phileb|          motives than the greatest happiness of the greatest number,
83 Phileb|      understand that God wills the happiness, not of some of his creatures
84 Phileb|   existence.~‘What is the place of happiness or utility in a system of
85 Phileb|             Admitting the greatest happiness principle to be true and
86 Phileb|            the other. The greatest happiness principle, which includes
87 Phileb|        what proofs? Religion, like happiness, is a word which has great
88 Phileb|          life.~Fifthly, beauty and happiness,—the inward enjoyment of
89 Phileb|       Syllogism, the conception of happiness as the foundation of morals,