ABSTRACT
By happiness may be meant pleasure or the feeling of gratification that is derived from the satisfaction of a personal desire without any implication as to the importance or strength of the desire in the totality of purposes in an individual’s life. The fulfilment of a desire can lead to a satisfaction which is relatively permanent if a measure of consistency is achieved between the prominently felt desires of an individual. Amongst the intrinsic values the value of morality has a certain priority because of two considerations. The realization of the values embodied in the notions ‘knowledge’ and ‘aesthetic quality’ to any considerable extent presupposes in the individual concerned certain abilities of a high degree, namely, intellectual ability and imaginative sensitivity, and such abilities may not be present in all. Consistency with, and being contributory to, the conception of greatest good are then the characteristics of that value approach to experience which we call morality.
