RE: On Moral Authorities
November 10, 2016 at 6:22 pm
(This post was last modified: November 10, 2016 at 6:30 pm by Ignorant.)
Rhythm Wrote: If happiness isn't pleasure, and pleasure isn't happiness..then I don't know what is... [1] but I don't base my morality on either, so it's irrelevent to me either way. [2]
Fair enough. I'm not trying to convince you, but just for the sake of clarity: Happiness often and mostly includes pleasure, but happiness cannot be reduced to MERE pleasure. That is the exact error upon which hedonism rests and fails. E.g. Heroin causes temporary pleasure, but a life spent in pursuit and use of heroin seldom causes "happiness".