Hedonistic persons. The good man argument in Plato's philebus

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 14 (1):5 – 26 (2006)
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It seems an odd claim that knowing could be itself of intrinsic worth. Knowledge appears heavily, perhaps entirely reliant for its worth on the value of the objects known and the value of the ends...

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