Sidgwick did not commit himself to an answer to this, one way or the other.
I recall being jarred by this in the beginning -- wondering, the more often I heard it (and not, say, "smashed" or another somewhat random colloquialism for drunk/high), if it was hipster slang or if there was a long-ago-established, unwritten rule that this was the word choice when talking about inebriation (never did get the answer to this, by the way).
There is no easy answer to this, but the way forward is definitely not continuing on with the same pattern of untargeted worming that has caused the situation to arise.
The Scottish moralist Francis Hutcheson -- another influence on Jefferson -- stated in a sentence the consensual answer to this question: "The surest way to promote his private happiness" is for a man "to do publicly useful actions".
"When you see one of the fastest growing corporations in a cash shortage, you have to ask: Where did that cash go?" With a definitive answer to this question a long way off, Mr. McCullough is willing to make an informed speculation about why Enron unraveled as it did.
Analysis: The answer to this question came by way of an accident, much like Fleming discovering penicillin, and of equal importance to the world.
Pearson provides a suspenseful and entertaining answer to this question, but along the way she asks some equally tricky ones about the way we live now.
"If you're asking me if Republicans have a chance to beat me, I'm going to answer this way: I never take any election for granted," Mrs. Boxer said in an interview.
There are two obvious answers to this question two different ways of characterizing the long-term survivors and beneficiaries of the evolution by selection process.
And once again they're up Dos a Cero on a perfectly decent looking Mexico team, who've just not found the answer to the positive way this US side has set up.
