Mill & Nietzsche
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Nietzsche: John, I take exception to your definition of happiness as being derived from the absence of pain and the presence, quantity, and quality of pleasure.Mill: Friedrich, I would assume you do since your definition of the greatest happiness is to embrace the eternal recurrence of all life good and bad, not in order to be liberated from pain but “in order to be oneself the eternal joy of becoming, beyond all terror and pity-that joy which included even joy in destroying” as it says in your Twilight of the Idols (Kauffmann 563). Nietzsche: Your idea of happiness and morality are interesting to me, but so because I enjoy the philological study of utopias. No matter how ideal they seem, they never work in reality. Mill: You are trying to tell me that shaping one’s desires and actions to produce the g
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