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hedonic calculus

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hedonic calculus

Another term for felicific calculus, a technique in ethics.


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So much so that rational decision-making is premised on an hedonic calculus in which pleasure must maximally exceed pain in the long term (utilitarian philosophy).
The course generally embodied an evolutionary perspective on psychological functioning in which the individual is very loosely guided by a subjective hedonic calculus.
 
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