Ethics and Values / Unit 4 Ethics 153 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Hedonism About Happiness
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The idea
Classical utilitarianism measures happiness hedonistically: happiness is pleasure and the absence of pain, and nothing counts except as it touches those.
In practice
On this measure, a promotion matters through the satisfaction it brings and the worry it ends — the title itself weighs nothing.
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