Sentences with phrase «psychological facts of our nature»

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For example, let us begin with this one: «If you start from the immediate facts of our psychological experience, as surely an empiricist should begin, you are at once led to the organic conception of nature (SMW 107).

Akin to his claim for the primacy of happiness in human motivation, then, Mill offers as yet another assertion of psychological fact, another «principle of human nature,» the claim that the happiness of others is a desire of each person and an important part of each person's happiness.