Philo Notes

- A being of higher faculties requries more to make him happy, is capable probably of more acute suffering,and certainly accessible to it at more points,than one of an inferior type; but in spite of these liabilities ,he can never really wish to sink into what he feels to be a lower grade existence.

- for the standard is not the agent's own greatest happiness, but the greatest amount of happiness altgether

- Alternative to happiness : Virtue and the absence of vice no less really than pleasure and the absence of pain. The desire of virtue is not as universal ,but it is an authentic a fact as the desire to happiness. And hence the opponents of the utilitarian standard deem that they have a right to infer that there are other ends of human action besides happiness

- Psychological fact the possibility of its being, to the individual,a good in itself ,without looking to any end beyond it.

- Virtue is part of happiness. The reason people seek for itself is because of the connection to happiness

- There is in reality nothing desired except happiness.

- Virtue: Moral excellence and righteousness;goodness.