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Passion (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Joshua Fox)

Minds Almost Meeting

CHAPTER

The Utilitarian Goal of Happiness

When people encourage you to find something larger than yourself to become part of. They don't tend to mean just larger piece and prosperity. That is a basically aversive goal, say utilitarian goal just everybody being happy roughly. It seems to want something a little more active with more conflict even. Including male the utilitarian I think right Josh. Right that in Nietzsche sort of this all gets sort of the sort of comfort model that he is critiquing or dominated by comfort.

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