 | Hastings Rashdall - 1907 - 494 pages
...individual's actual desires, irrespective of their nature, whereas in fact we feel that it is better to be ' a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied...to be Socrates dissatisfied, than a fool satisfied' (Utilitarianism, p. 14). contend, ' except when defending a thesis,' that those complaints which bring... | |
 | John Dewey, James Hayden Tufts - 1908 - 644 pages
...that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. ... 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 is of a different opinion,... | |
 | 1908 - 492 pages
...attend to his professional duties. Do Too Know How a Pig Feels?— John Stuart Mill says: "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 is of a different opinion,... | |
 | Marion Parris - 1909 - 130 pages
...subjective standard, and rejects those which fall below this criterion, holding, that "it is better to be a human being dissatisfied, than a pig satisfied;...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied." It is in such statements as these, and there are many in the "Utilitarianism," that Mill shows that... | |
 | Benjamin Rand - 1909 - 832 pages
...imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections qualify. It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - 1911 - 328 pages
...imperfections, but only because he \ feels not at all the good which those imperfections qualify. It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side... | |
 | Robert John Wardell - 1911 - 222 pages
...order than animal pleasures. He said, ' It is better to be a human being dis- „ p. 93. satisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.' sotia,t. 97. Therefore the way of ' wisdom ' is to cultivate the intellectual element in human nature.... | |
 | Charles Albert Dubray - 1912 - 658 pages
...depends both on the pleasurable object and on the faculty in which the feeling resides. "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be a Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied." (Utilitarianism, ch. II.) (6) It is not true that individual... | |
 | Charles George Herbermann - 1913 - 882 pages
...those who have experience of different pleasures, some are preferable to others, that it is bettor to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied,...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. Then he slips from "preferable" to "higher", thus surreptitiously introducing a moral classification... | |
 | Charles George Herbermann - 1913 - 878 pages
...experience of different pleasures, some are E referable to others, that it is better to be a human eing dissatisfied than a pig satisfied, better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. Then he slips from "preferable" to "higher", thus surreptitiously introducing a moral classification... | |
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It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. 
