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Ideas for Stephen Hetherington, Naguib Mahfouz and John Locke

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23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 2. Hedonism

4019	Things are good and evil only in reference to pleasure and pain [Locke]
	Full Idea: Things then are good and evil only in reference to pleasure and pain.
	From: John Locke (Essay Conc Human Understanding (2nd Ed) [1694], 2.20.02)
	A reaction: This is presumably the seeds of utilitarianism, and is evidently at the core of empiricism. In "Gorgias" Socrates explained why it is wrong.