... is not adopted as the intended goal of the activity. ² Such pleasures bear on Sidgwick’s well-known paradox of hedonism: 1. Here comes into view what we may call the fundamental paradox of Hedonism, that the impulse towards pleasure, if too predominant, defeats its own aim...

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