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#138 – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the only things that intrinsically matter

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Hedonism and Hedonist Utilitarianism

The idea that there's a conceptual connection is something I'm not aware of anybody else who actually holds that particular view. So at least to ancient Greece, Epicurus and his school of thought. But then when you come closer to the present day, this was the by far the preferred view among the British empiricists.

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