{"id":22562,"date":"2013-10-01T09:52:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T08:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=22562"},"modified":"2013-10-01T09:52:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T08:52:07","slug":"my-aim-in-life-is-to-make-life-pleasanter-for-this-great-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/10\/01\/my-aim-in-life-is-to-make-life-pleasanter-for-this-great-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"My aim in life is to make life pleasanter for this great majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fascinating quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=0HsZZv-gdkQC&amp;pg=PA124&amp;lpg=PA124&amp;dq=My+aim+in+life+is+to+make+life+pleasanter+for+this+great+majority;+I+do+not+care+if+it+becomes+in+the+process+less+pleasant+for+the+well+to+do+minority&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=TqxmJLBzD0&amp;sig=x9hblByhN-ajCc_WJEsFTFtbjZs&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=c4pKUruID4aS0QWquICwBQ&amp;ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q=My%20aim%20in%20life%20is%20to%20make%20life%20pleasanter%20for%20this%20great%20majority%3B%20I%20do%20not%20care%20if%20it%20becomes%20in%20the%20process%20less%20pleasant%20for%20the%20well%20to%20do%20minority&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">Beatrice Webb, she quoting Joseph Chamberlain<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2018My aim in life is to make life pleasanter for this great majority; I do not care if it becomes in the process less pleasant for the well to do minority.\u2019 (Joseph Chamberlian, 1836-1914).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It's a powerful interpretation of utilitarianism.\u00a0And an appropriate one.\u00a0But it's now forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Chamberlain\" target=\"_blank\">Birmingham, especially, \u00a0had much to thank this man for<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip: Ivan Horrocks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fascinating quote from Beatrice Webb, she quoting Joseph Chamberlain: \u2018My aim in life is to make life pleasanter for this great majority;<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/10\/01\/my-aim-in-life-is-to-make-life-pleasanter-for-this-great-majority\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}