Dialogue

 1 Phileb|           and many, and that a like principle may be applied to analogy
 2 Phileb|             by Hegel as the supreme principle of philosophy; and the law
 3 Phileb|         logicians to be an ultimate principle of the human mind, is displaced
 4 Phileb|          mind stands to the supreme principle of measure.~b. Again, to
 5 Phileb|          much to be attributed to a principle of rest as of motion (compare
 6 Phileb|             and number, as the sole principle of good. The comparison
 7 Phileb|     Parmenides and the Sophist. The principle of the one and many of which
 8 Phileb|           but that we should have a principle of choice. He did not intend
 9 Phileb|          overcome, and the power or principle in them which overcame,
10 Phileb|            the ‘greatest happiness’ principle has been acceptable to philosophers,
11 Phileb|            recognize the value of a principle which can supply a connecting
12 Phileb|           with a greatest happiness principle or with Kant’s law of duty.
13 Phileb|              the greatest happiness principle is in the highest degree
14 Phileb|             the ‘greatest happiness principle,’ it seems as if we ought
15 Phileb|         read ‘the noblest happiness principle,’ ‘the happiness of others
16 Phileb|             the happiness of others principle’—the principle not of the
17 Phileb|            of others principle’—the principle not of the greatest, but
18 Phileb|            would best carry out the principle of utility who sacrificed
19 Phileb|            of resting morality on a principle intelligible to all capacities?
20 Phileb|            advantage of an abstract principle wide enough and strong enough
21 Phileb|            end.~And if we test this principle by the lives of its professors,
22 Phileb|        which the greatest happiness principle has conferred upon mankind,
23 Phileb|          Any one who adds a general principle to knowledge has been a
24 Phileb| circumstances such and such a moral principle is to be enforced, or whether
25 Phileb|          enough for an intermediate principle which is practically certain.~
26 Phileb|       unfrequently the more general principle may correct prejudices and
27 Phileb|            influence which a simple principle such as ‘Act so as to promote
28 Phileb|              The greatest happiness principle strengthens our sense of
29 Phileb|         Upon the greatest happiness principle it is admitted that I am
30 Phileb|             what his, except on the principle that I am most likely to
31 Phileb|           of actions to happiness a principle upon which we can classify
32 Phileb|       Whether that can be the first principle of morals which is hardly
33 Phileb|           from a greatest happiness principle. But we find that utilitarians
34 Phileb|             profess to be, the only principle of morals.~And this brings
35 Phileb|       reject the greatest happiness principle, but it rejects them. Now
36 Phileb|             best explained upon one principle and some upon another: the
37 Phileb|       utility’ or ‘pleasure’: their principle of right is of a far higher
38 Phileb|          forcibly inculcated on the principle of utility than on any other.
39 Phileb|         into the greatest happiness principle takes away from its sacred
40 Phileb|           been the great corrective principle in law, in politics, in
41 Phileb|    Admitting the greatest happiness principle to be true and valuable,
42 Phileb|       general notion is the highest principle of human life. We may try
43 Phileb|              The greatest happiness principle, which includes both, has
44 Phileb|       measure is now made the first principle of good. Some of these questions
45 Phileb|     understanding and establish the principle on which the argument rests.~
46 Phileb|             rests.~PROTARCHUS: What principle?~SOCRATES: A principle about
47 Phileb|         What principle?~SOCRATES: A principle about which all men are
48 Phileb|        Speak plainer.~SOCRATES: The principle which has just turned up,
49 Phileb|          they tell us that the same principle should be applied to every
50 Phileb|          for an illustration of our principle to the case of letters.~
51 Phileb|      classes.~PROTARCHUS: Upon what principle would you make the division?~
52 Phileb|        therefore be called a fourth principle?~PROTARCHUS: So let us call
53 Phileb|          the desires and the moving principle in every living being have
54 Phileb|              Let this, then, be the principle of division; those of them