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Thomas Hurka on Pleasure

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Are You Leading a Pleasurable Life?

Pleasure is good, however you get it. It seems to follow that someone who engages in the very simple, basic pleasures and has lots of intense experiences living as pleasurable and happier life than somebody who engages in a much more cerebral pursuits. Well, I'm not going to say that the first person is leading is good a life because pleasure is not the only good. But if you ask how much pleasure, how much good feeling is there in a life, the answer might be it's just as good as the more cerebral life that you describe.

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