![]() ![]() ![]() It will be well, therefore, to clear the ground by facing the psychological problem before we attack the ethical questions which depend, to a large extent, upon our answer to that problem. ![]() On the other hand it is clear that if nothing but pleasure can be desired, it is useless, and indeed meaningless, to maintain that something other than pleasure ought to be desired. It is possible to contend that I may, as a matter of psychological fact, desire other things, but that, if I do so, I am a fool for my pains. He may hold that it is, as a matter of psychological fact, possible to desire other things besides pleasure, but that pleasure is the only proper or rational object of desire. It is of course possible for a Moral Philosopher to reject the hedonistic Psychology and still to remain a Hedonist. ![]() The most fundamental of all distinctions between ethical systems turns upon the attitude which they adopt towards this theory. In the writings of Bentham and his followers the ethical doctrine that actions are right or wrong according as they do or do not tend to produce maximum pleasure is founded upon the psychological theory that as a matter of fact nothing is or can be desired except pleasure. ![]()
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