Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain, and pleasure
What does that mean? well, in Humpty Dumpty
language, or more accurately Humean language,'... '...it means what I choose it to mean.'
failure of a positive is not success of a negative
motivational hedonism merits an incredulous stare: why would anyone believe even for a minute that all human motivation takes as its object just one sort of item?
On this point, some go beyond incredulity to contempt. Thus Nietzsche: “Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does” (Nietzsche: ‘Maxims and Arrows’
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