1. The philosophy of happiness
This theory is easy to believe but with a little "background check" is quite a basic derivation of natural human instinct. ... When thus attacked, [those who believe in hedonism] have always answered, that it is not they, but their accusers, who represent human nature in a degrading light; since the accusation supposes human beings to be capable of no pleasures except those of which swine are capable. If this supposition were true, the charge could not be gainsaid, but would then be no longer an imputation; for if the sources of pleasure were precisely the same to human beings and to swine, th...
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