The Problems of Philosophy: Introductory ReadingsWilliam P. Alston, Richard B. Brandt |
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... happiness , since we always desire happiness for its own sake and never on account of something else ; whereas honour and pleasure and intelligence and each of the virtues , though we do indeed desire them on their own account as well ...
... happiness , since we always desire happiness for its own sake and never on account of something else ; whereas honour and pleasure and intelligence and each of the virtues , though we do indeed desire them on their own account as well ...
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... happiness is to increase the average happiness , and vice versa . NEGATIVE UTILITARIANISM K. R. Popper has suggested 13 that we should concern ourselves not so much . with the maximization of happiness as with the minimization of ...
... happiness is to increase the average happiness , and vice versa . NEGATIVE UTILITARIANISM K. R. Popper has suggested 13 that we should concern ourselves not so much . with the maximization of happiness as with the minimization of ...
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... happiness against equitable distribution , to weigh probabilities with happiness , and to weigh the intellectual and other qualities of states of mind with their pleasurableness . Are we not therefore driven back to the necessity of ...
... happiness against equitable distribution , to weigh probabilities with happiness , and to weigh the intellectual and other qualities of states of mind with their pleasurableness . Are we not therefore driven back to the necessity of ...
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The Inconceivability of Gods Nonexistence | 1 |
From Nature to | 2 |
A Critique of the Argument from Design | 3 |
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