The Methods of Ethics

CHAPTER II

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EMPIRICAL HEDONISM

1. In this method it is assumed that all pleasures sought and pains shunned are commensurable; and can be arranged in a certain scale of preferableness: 123-125

2. pleasure being defined as “feeling apprehended as desirable by the sentient individual at the time of feeling it.” 125-130

Note 130