CHAPTER VII.. Hedonism and Evolutionism.

HEDONISM AND EVOLUTIONISM.

1. Alliance of evolutionism and hedonism, 164 (a) From interpreting greatest happiness by the laws of life, 164 (b) From interpreting life by pleasure, 165 2. Evolutionist argument for concomitance of life and pleasure, 167 3. Objections to this argument, 168 (a) That life cannot bring more pleasure than pain, 169 (α) From the negative nature of pleasure, 171 (β) From the facts of human life, 172 (b) That the evolution of life does not uniformly tend to pleasure, 172 (α) Incompleteness of the evolutionist argument, 173 (β) The pessimist doctrine that life tends to misery, 175 (aa) The hypothesis of the unconscious, 176 (bb) The nature of volition, 177 (cc) The facts of human progress, 179 Individual progress, 179 Social progress, 181 4. The psychological analysis of pleasure and pain in relation to evolutionist ethics, 186 (a) The subjective nature of pleasure and pain, 187 (b) The conditions of pleasure and pain, 190 (c) Application of the theory of evolution, 197