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The Methods of Ethics

Note 44 — Chapter IV · PLEASURE AND DESIRE

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Mr. Leslie Stephen, who holds (Science of Ethics, p. 50) that “pain and pleasure are the sole determining causes of action,” at the same time thinks that it “will be admitted on all hands” that “we are not always determined by a calculation of pleasure to come.”

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