...This chapter identifies possible behaviors that can satisfy different proposed empathy-induced motives, providing a basis for distinguishing these motives empirically. The hedonic calculus prompted by altruistic motivation is compared with the hedonic calculus prompted by egoistic motives...

...Roy Gibson, Ovid’s Ars amatoria and the Epicurean Hedonic Calculus In: Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher. Edited by: Katharina Volk and Gareth D. Williams, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197610336.003.0004...

...Cavell acknowledged John Stuart Mill as a fellow perfectionist, with reference to On Liberty and its aversion to conformity. But the primary focus of this chapter is Mill’s principle of utility, and the hedonic calculus that springs therefrom. One of the hardest things to accept...

...Epicurus’ appeal to nature to show that our final end is pleasure is less crude than often thought. Instead of formulating a hedonic calculus, he distinguishes between desires in terms of what is natural and what is necessary. He produces a revisionary, ideal account of nature, illustrated...

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