The Study of PhilosophyCollegiate Press, 1987 - 340 pages |
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... pleasure or happiness Bentham has in mind , as he very soon tells us , is not each person's own happiness or pleasure ( as his predecessors , the ancient Greek hedonists , had maintained ) but rather , in the words of his famous slogan ...
... pleasure or happiness Bentham has in mind , as he very soon tells us , is not each person's own happiness or pleasure ( as his predecessors , the ancient Greek hedonists , had maintained ) but rather , in the words of his famous slogan ...
Page 175
... pleasure , it has often been pointed out that the best way " to get pleasure is to forget pleasure , " that pleasure or happiness is like a butterfly , which when pursued is always just beyond our grasp . But this objec- tion is really ...
... pleasure , it has often been pointed out that the best way " to get pleasure is to forget pleasure , " that pleasure or happiness is like a butterfly , which when pursued is always just beyond our grasp . But this objec- tion is really ...
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... pleasure from torturing others ? We would normally regard such pleasure as bad , derived as it is from pain . So pleasure is not always good . And if the second thesis is correct , that pleasure is the only thing which is intrins ...
... pleasure from torturing others ? We would normally regard such pleasure as bad , derived as it is from pain . So pleasure is not always good . And if the second thesis is correct , that pleasure is the only thing which is intrins ...
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It began here | 11 |
And so I go about the world | 29 |
part II | 65 |
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