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CHAPTER IV. Objective Hedonism and Common Sense

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OBJECTIVE HEDONISM AND COMMON SENSE

1. It may seem that the judgments of Common Sense respecting the Sources of Happiness offer a refuge from the uncertainties of Empirical Hedonism: but there are several fundamental defects in this refuge; 151-153

2. and these judgments when closely examined are found to be perplexingly inconsistent. 153-158

3. Still we may derive from them a certain amount of practical guidance. 158-161

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