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... progress , 179 Individual progress , 179 Social progress , 181 4. The psychological analysis of pleasure and pain in relation to evolutionist ethics , 186 ( a ) The subjective nature of pleasure and pain , 187 · ( b ) The conditions of ...
... progress , 179 Individual progress , 179 Social progress , 181 4. The psychological analysis of pleasure and pain in relation to evolutionist ethics , 186 ( a ) The subjective nature of pleasure and pain , 187 · ( b ) The conditions of ...
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... progress of morality . But it is at the initial stage that the and of the question of origin is of greatest importance : when the attempt is made to show how , in the course of time , and by the aid of purely physical and biolo- gical ...
... progress of morality . But it is at the initial stage that the and of the question of origin is of greatest importance : when the attempt is made to show how , in the course of time , and by the aid of purely physical and biolo- gical ...
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... progress made by universal benevolence , yet it may explain the value ascribed to the feeling of benev- olence , when its object is the family or the com- munity . Besides — as has already been pointed out - natural selection always ...
... progress made by universal benevolence , yet it may explain the value ascribed to the feeling of benev- olence , when its object is the family or the com- munity . Besides — as has already been pointed out - natural selection always ...
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... progress of the race that destructive activity should not be painful , but on the whole pleasurable . In point of fact , however , the pleasure of destruction has gone much beyond what these words express , and much beyond what is ...
... progress of the race that destructive activity should not be painful , but on the whole pleasurable . In point of fact , however , the pleasure of destruction has gone much beyond what these words express , and much beyond what is ...
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... progress would never have become persistent . But the same objection cannot be urged against universalistic hedonism . It is true that this has not been the end consistently aimed at in the past . Those from whom our social instincts ...
... progress would never have become persistent . But the same objection cannot be urged against universalistic hedonism . It is true that this has not been the end consistently aimed at in the past . Those from whom our social instincts ...
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