{"id":12640,"date":"2009-05-12T13:54:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T13:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/12\/nietzsche-on-bentham-mill-co\/"},"modified":"2009-05-12T13:54:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T13:54:25","slug":"nietzsche-on-bentham-mill-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/12\/nietzsche-on-bentham-mill-co\/","title":{"rendered":"Nietzsche on Bentham, Mill, &#038; Co."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">&quot;If we have our own <em>why<\/em> of life, we shall get along with almost any <em>how<\/em>. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.&quot; (<strong>Twilight of the Idols<\/strong>, &quot;Maxims and Arrows,&quot; #12.) <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The art of the aphorism at its best.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">In all fairness to the English I should point out that it was an Englishman who provided what is perhaps the best refutation of hedonism we have, namely, F. H. Bradley in his &quot;Pleasure For Pleasure&#39;s Sake&quot;&#0160; in <strong>Ethical Studies<\/strong><em>. <\/em><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.&quot; (Twilight of the Idols, &quot;Maxims and Arrows,&quot; #12.) The art of the aphorism at its best. In all fairness to the English I should point out that it was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/12\/nietzsche-on-bentham-mill-co\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nietzsche on Bentham, Mill, &#038; Co.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,76,420],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-by-others","category-nietzsche","category-pleasure-and-pain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}