Pleasure and the Good Life: Concerning the Nature Varieties and Plausibility of Hedonism

Pleasure and the Good Life: Concerning the Nature Varieties and Plausibility of Hedonism

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1-234

  Feldman, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Aristippus; Attitudinal pleasure; Bentham; Desert; Deserved pleasure; Epicurus; False pleasure; g. e. moore; Happiness; Hedonism; Higher pleasures; J. s. mill; Lower pleasures; pain; pleasure; sensory pleasure; the good life; the shape of a life; welfare; worthless pleasure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921993511     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/019926516X.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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