CHAPTER VI

DEDUCTIVE HEDONISM

1. Hedonistic Method must ultimately rest on facts of empirical observation: but it might become largely deductive, through scientific knowledge of the causes of pleasure and pain: 176-180

2. but we have no practically available general theory of these causes, either psychophysical, 180-190

3. or biological. 190-192

4. Nor can the principle of ‘increasing life,’ or that of ‘aiming at self-development,’ or that of ‘giving free play to impulse,’ be so defined as to afford us any practical guidance to the end of Egoism, without falling back on the empirical comparison of pleasures and pains. 192-195