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单词 psychological hedonism
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psychological hedonism
psychological hedonism n. Philosophy the theory that human actions are motivated by the desire to secure pleasure and to avoid pain.
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1876 H. Sidgwick in Mind 1 545 His [sc. F. H. Bradley's] polemical writing, especially his attack on ethical and psychological Hedonism in Essays III. and VII., is always vigorous.]
1884 H. Sidgwick Methods of Ethics (ed. 3) i. iv. 40 There is..one view of the feelings which prompt to voluntary action... I mean the view that volition is always determined by pleasures or pains actual or prospective. This doctrine—which I may distinguish as Psychological Hedonism—is often connected..with the method of Ethics which I have called Egoistic Hedonism.
1961 J. Hospers Human Conduct iv. 147 We must distinguish two varieties of psychological hedonism: the variety which says all that people ever desire is pleasure or satisfaction..and the variety which says that people desire many things but these things are all desired solely for the sake of the pleasure or satisfaction they will bring to the agent.
2003 I. Adams & R. W. Dyson Fifty Major Polit. Thinkers 135 Psychological hedonism points to both an individual and a social ethic.
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