1. The philosophy of happiness
Certain things are right, and others wrong, according to some quantifiable measure of "aggregate happiness." He asserts that science will someday find a way to measure the level of pleasure or pain that a given situation causes a given person, and that there is some way to compare those measurements for all of society to determine the right action. ... He goes on to explain that when we attempt to find this hedonistic calculus, it will not merely be a quantitative measure of the pleasure felt by an individual. ...
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