Note 137 — Chapter XIV · HAPPINESS AND CONDUCT: THE GOOD AND DESIRE

With these statements may he compared Spencer, Principles of Ethics, pp. 30-32: Stephen, Science of Ethics, pp. 42. Sidgwick, in his Methods of Ethics, holds that the axiomatic character of happiness as an end proves that the position is not empirical but intuitional or a priori. Only as we base ourselves on certain ultimate deliverances of conscience can we he said to know that happiness is the desirable end and that the happiness of one is just as intrinsically desirable as the happiness of another. (See his Methods of Ethics, Book III., chs. xiii. and xiv.)