...is indeed the test of all rules of conduct, as utilitarianism stipulated, "those only are happy... who have their minds fixed on some object other than...happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind.... Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so."12 The second great change that resulted...

...as an unintended consequence of your pursuits. As philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) taught, Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds...pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way.9 The pace at which we satisfy our...

...was only to be attained by not making it the direct end." " Those only " were " happy, who " had " their minds fixed on some object other than their...pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end." From that t1me, too, forward, he gave a place "among the prime necessities of human well-being,...

...have moderated the modern economic view of society and human nature. Mill said, Those are only happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than...others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some act or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as the ideal end.'50 In other words, the pursuit of profit...

...made this concession in his Autobiography (to the embarrassment of hedonism): "Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness. . . . Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. ... Treat not happiness, but some...

...John Stuart Mill, New York 1954, S. 66. Vgl. Au., CW., Bd. I, S. 151. by not making it the direct end. Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds...pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end" .61 Diese altruistische Haltung und die Idee der Verbesserung der Menschheit prägten in Zukunft...

...self-fulfillment, and compassion. John Stuart Mill believed that people can achieve personal happiness only if they "have their minds fixed on some object other than...pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end."64 In this sense, meaning as well as happiness, originates with purposive behavior. Philosopher...

...absolute surrender to religious beliefs. In short, as John Stuart Mill wrote, "those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness." Emotion may overrun the cool calculation of self-interest. The lover may scorn prudential caution and...

...end of life. But I now thought that this end was only to be attained by not making it the direct end. Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds...pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way. . . . This theory now became the...

...happiness, as the end of life, could only be attained by not making it the direct end. Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness, or at least this is true of the great majority of mankind. The second lesson was that the "passive...