The Study of PhilosophyCollegiate Press, 1987 - 340 pages |
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Page 167
... 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 168
... pleasure being equal , he was bold to remark , pushpin is as good as poetry - a remark that led his critics to call his new version of hedonism a " pig philosophy . " But Bentham was undaunted : the source of pleasure , he felt , was ...
... pleasure being equal , he was bold to remark , pushpin is as good as poetry - a remark that led his critics to call his new version of hedonism a " pig philosophy . " But Bentham was undaunted : the source of pleasure , he felt , was ...
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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 |
Aristotle and the art of thinking | 67 |
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