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<head> | <head>INTRODUCT. DIMENSIONS of HAPPINESS</head> | ||
<p><add>Note</add> <gap/> the introduction to it on p.4. of this.</p> | |||
<del>It may possibly be here objected that the <gap/></del><lb/> | |||
<del>is fallacious supposing</del> <add><del>method of</del></add> <add>The reasoning (I can conceive such an one to<lb/> | |||
<add>say) which supposes</add> the happiness <add><del><gap/></del></add> of a state<lb/> | |||
to consist in the happiness of all the individuals<lb/> | |||
in it summed up together is fallacious:<del><gap/> <add><gap/></add> <gap/></del><lb/> | |||
<del>after <gap/> <gap/> <gap/> over, each man's quantity</del> <add>Tis in vain to talk of adding quantities, which,</add> <add>portion</add><lb/> | |||
<add> after the addition </add>will continue distinct <del>from every other</del><add>as they were</add><lb/> | |||
before; <del>just</del> that you might as well pretend<lb/> | |||
<add>One man's happiness will never be another</add><lb/> | |||
to add 20 apples to 20 pears, which after you<lb/> | |||
<add>man's happiness: a gain to one man is no gain to another.</add><lb/> | |||
had done there would not be 40 of any one <add><unclear>sort</unclear> of</add><lb/> | |||
<add>there will not be a single apple the more, nor a single pear</add><add> | |||
the more</add><lb/> | |||
thing, but 20 of each <add>sort</add> just as there was before:<lb/> | |||
that therefore <del>in</del> <add>to instance</add> the last case put, the man<lb/> | |||
with the ten millions of degrees of happiness<lb/> | |||
being entirely distinct from every one of those<lb/> | |||
with 5 only, taking one man out of the first<lb/> | |||
state to put against <add>this</add> one man in the second state,<lb/> | |||
the quantity of happiness in the latter would<lb/> | |||
be in fact but half of that of the latter, <add>that of <del><gap/></del></add> each<pb/> | |||
<head>2</head><head>Introduct. Dimensions of Happiness</head> | |||
<note>If a Legislator<lb/> | |||
desires & indistinctly<lb/> | |||
the happiness of all<lb/> | |||
the persons in the<lb/> | |||
state, if he be such<lb/> | |||
an one as <del>all</del> the<lb/> | |||
whole state is interested<lb/> | |||
to wish for,<lb/> | |||
one man's happiness<lb/> | |||
will be the same to<lb/> | |||
him as another<lb/> | |||
man's: it is not</note> | |||
<p>man in the one being but the half of that of any<lb/> | |||
man in the other —</p> | |||
<p>The <add>My</add> Answer to this is, that in all political reasonings<lb/> | |||
we are to consider <add>there is no other way than that of considering</add> things as they would<lb/> | |||
appear to a Legislator elevated to that pinnacle<lb/> | |||
of indifference to which all actual<lb/> | |||
Legislatures approach as far as they tend to <add>in proportion as they are perfect.</add><lb/> | |||
perfection —</p> | |||
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INTRODUCT. DIMENSIONS of HAPPINESS
Note the introduction to it on p.4. of this.
It may possibly be here objected that the
is fallacious supposing method of The reasoning (I can conceive such an one to
<add>say) which supposes the happiness of a state
to consist in the happiness of all the individuals
in it summed up together is fallacious:
after over, each man's quantity Tis in vain to talk of adding quantities, which, portion
after the addition will continue distinct from every otheras they were
before; just that you might as well pretend
One man's happiness will never be another
to add 20 apples to 20 pears, which after you
man's happiness: a gain to one man is no gain to another.
had done there would not be 40 of any one sort of
there will not be a single apple the more, nor a single pear
the more
thing, but 20 of each sort just as there was before:
that therefore in to instance the last case put, the man
with the ten millions of degrees of happiness
being entirely distinct from every one of those
with 5 only, taking one man out of the first
state to put against this one man in the second state,
the quantity of happiness in the latter would
be in fact but half of that of the latter, that of each
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2Introduct. Dimensions of Happiness
If a Legislator
desires & indistinctly
the happiness of all
the persons in the
state, if he be such
an one as all the
whole state is interested
to wish for,
one man's happiness
will be the same to
him as another
man's: it is not
man in the one being but the half of that of any
man in the other —
The My Answer to this is, that in all political reasonings
we are to consider there is no other way than that of considering things as they would
appear to a Legislator elevated to that pinnacle
of indifference to which all actual
Legislatures approach as far as they tend to in proportion as they are perfect.
perfection —
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