Archive for the ‘ Psychoanalytic thought ’ Category
I’ve been slowly reading Samuel Fleischacker’s compact A Short History of Distributive Justice. In his section on utilitarianism, I came across this sentence: In its purest, Benthamite form, the form that most conduces to setting up a calculus that might settle all ethical questions, utilitarianism aims at pleasure and the avoidance of pain, where “pleasure” and [ READ MORE ]