 | Frank Thilly - 1900 - 374 pages
...persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they with theirs. " 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,... | |
 | Frederick Ryland - 1902 - 260 pages
...any pleasures into quantitative. It ia not open to a consistent hedonist to say with Mill 1 that " it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than...satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.5' We may, as systematic empirical hedonists, hold that " it is quite compatible with the... | |
 | David George Ritchie - 1902 - 254 pages
...particularly who are the " competent judges " of pleasures, and how he is justified in maintaining that it is "better" to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ? And, when Mill admitted that " Socrates dissatisfied " was better than a " fool satisfied," Socrates... | |
 | Warner Fite - 1903 - 408 pages
...the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs. ... It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied." It will be seen that the force of Mill's argument lies in its appeal to common experience. Here it... | |
 | Guillaume L. Duprat - 1903 - 422 pages
...on his side claim to make people happy by allowing each to act according to his own sweet will. 1 " It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied." Utilitarianism, p. M.-TR. 56. The Collective Interest. The sacrifice of individual to collective interest... | |
 | WILLIAM DE WITT HYDE - 1904 - 306 pages
...they are at all bearable ; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all...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 of the question. The other party... | |
 | William Ritchie Sorley - 1904 - 362 pages
...only end, and satisfaction is simply another name for it, then it is plainly incorrect to say that "it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be of which Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied." l As has common been urged from the evolutionist... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1904 - 1218 pages
...maintained that ''the quality of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry," Mill contended that "it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied," ie human discontent is better than swinish pleasures. Since Mill's day utilitarianism has been combined... | |
 | Hastings Rashdall - 1907 - 494 pages
...this or that individual's actual desires, irrespective of their nature, whereas in fact we feel that it is better to be ' a human being dissatisfied than...to be Socrates dissatisfied, than a fool satisfied' (Utilitarianism, p. 14). contend, ' except when defending a thesis,' that those complaints which bring... | |
 | 1908 - 492 pages
...be able to 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,... | |
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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. 
