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... happiness . I would have him hate in himself the desires which bias his judgment , that they might neither blind him in choosing nor ob- struct him when he has chosen . The net result of all this is that man , of himself , is ignorant ...
... happiness . I would have him hate in himself the desires which bias his judgment , that they might neither blind him in choosing nor ob- struct him when he has chosen . The net result of all this is that man , of himself , is ignorant ...
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... happiness which forms the standard of what is right in conduct , is not the agent's own happiness but the happiness of all concerned . Utilitarianism does , however , refuse to admit that sacrifice of one's own good is itself a good . A ...
... happiness which forms the standard of what is right in conduct , is not the agent's own happiness but the happiness of all concerned . Utilitarianism does , however , refuse to admit that sacrifice of one's own good is itself a good . A ...
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... happiness , then happiness is unattainable . But this is not what philosophers have meant by happiness when they taught that happiness was the end of life . The happiness which they meant was not a life of rapture , but moments of such ...
... happiness , then happiness is unattainable . But this is not what philosophers have meant by happiness when they taught that happiness was the end of life . The happiness which they meant was not a life of rapture , but moments of such ...
Contents
AN INTRODUCTION | 2 |
A Metaphysical Problem | 90 |
An Epistemological Problem | 169 |
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