Pleasures vary in duration, intensity, fecundity, purity, and locality'

1

• Pleasures vary in duration, intensity, fecundity,
  purity, and locality.
• Longer pleasures are better than shorter ones
• Pure pleasures are better than ones mixed with
  pain.
• Pleasures productive of more pleasures are better
  than pleasures productive of pain.
• Overall pleasure (sense of well being) is better
  than merely local organ pleasure of taste buds or
  sex organs.
• Mental pleasures of reading are better than
  physical pleasures of spills and thrills.
• Quiet pleasures of old age are better than stormy
  pleasures of youth (Epicurus).

2

• Psychological hedonism is not ethical hedonism.
• But if psychological hedonism is true ethical
  hedonism is also true
• I cannot pursue anything but pleasure implies
  that it is false that I should pursue anything
  but pleasure.
• Hedonism is either universalistic hedonism
  egoistic hedonism.

3

• Even if the attainment of every goal is
  accompanied by pleasure, that does prove that the
  goal was pursued for the sake of pleasure.
• Even if pleasure is the standard of right action,
  that does not prove that pleasure should be the
  end in view.
• The hedonistic paradox to pursue the pleasure of
  listening to music as the end in view is to cut
  oneself off form the source of such pleasure,
  from the music itself.
• It is not the contemplation of pleasureful
  listening that is the source of pleasure. It is
  the music itself.

4

• An action is morally right because it produces
  pleasure only if rational discussion regulated by
  universal rights agrees that pleasure is the
  standard.
• People who believe that doing ones moral duty is
  sometimes right even if it produces pain cannot
  be disqualified from the discussion.
• Therefore, the standard of pleasure is not
  ultimate, but is subordinate to the standard of
  rational discussion.
• Otherwise the pursuit of pleasure is not an
  ism. It is not hedonism. It is an animal
  impulse and not a defensible human belief.