Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... pleasures , of public honor or fame , of wealth , of intellectual excellence . Is pleasure or the balance of pleasure over pain the only meaning of what is good ? If so , how can we compare or measure pleasures and pains either in ...
... pleasures , of public honor or fame , of wealth , of intellectual excellence . Is pleasure or the balance of pleasure over pain the only meaning of what is good ? If so , how can we compare or measure pleasures and pains either in ...
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... pleasure that is traceable to the sense of beauty . The former involves no assertion beyond the individual's experience , while the latter claims universality . When something gives me pleasure I do not assert that it must give pleasure ...
... pleasure that is traceable to the sense of beauty . The former involves no assertion beyond the individual's experience , while the latter claims universality . When something gives me pleasure I do not assert that it must give pleasure ...
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... pleasure , its distinctive character would be supplied , not by the pleasurable , but by what distinguishes that ... pleasure . The life of this doctrine has consisted of proposing in turn one or another class of pleasures , or several ...
... pleasure , its distinctive character would be supplied , not by the pleasurable , but by what distinguishes that ... pleasure . The life of this doctrine has consisted of proposing in turn one or another class of pleasures , or several ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
On the Improvement of the Understanding Benedict | 30 |
INTRODUCTION | 68 |
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