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HoP 420 - No Place Will Please Me So - Thomas More

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Utilitarian Approach to Life

The inhabitants of Moore's utopia are constantly steered towards right behavior using mutual surveillance and threats. They seek to maximize pleasure, though they eschew crass hedonism on the grounds that higher intellectual pleasures are superior to those of the body. The coldly calculative reasoning here is seen in other domains too, as with the memorable provision that utopian couples should look at one another naked before getting married.

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