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... principle all our plans for good living and right action are to be guided , what it is that nature pursues as the highest object of desire , what she shuns as the utmost evil ? And seeing that there is extreme dis- agreement among the ...
... principle all our plans for good living and right action are to be guided , what it is that nature pursues as the highest object of desire , what she shuns as the utmost evil ? And seeing that there is extreme dis- agreement among the ...
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... principles with greater refinement , and who say that it is not enough to leave the question of good or evil to the decision of sense , but that thought and reasoning also enable us to understand both that pleasure in itself is matter ...
... principles with greater refinement , and who say that it is not enough to leave the question of good or evil to the decision of sense , but that thought and reasoning also enable us to understand both that pleasure in itself is matter ...
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... principle of selection adopted by the wise man is that he should either by refusing certain pleasures attain to other and greater pleasures or 34 by enduring pains should ward off pains still more severe . Hold- ing as I do this theory ...
... principle of selection adopted by the wise man is that he should either by refusing certain pleasures attain to other and greater pleasures or 34 by enduring pains should ward off pains still more severe . Hold- ing as I do this theory ...
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... principles have a wide application . There is one field in which the eloquence of your school has been wont ... principle of choice which I have just described has been established , whereby either pleasures are neglected for the pur ...
... principles have a wide application . There is one field in which the eloquence of your school has been wont ... principle of choice which I have just described has been established , whereby either pleasures are neglected for the pur ...
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... principles of good navigation , so wisdom , which we must hold to be the art of living , would be no object of desire , if it were productive of no advantage ; but it is in fact desired , because it is to us as an 43 architect that ...
... principles of good navigation , so wisdom , which we must hold to be the art of living , would be no object of desire , if it were productive of no advantage ; but it is in fact desired , because it is to us as an 43 architect that ...
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