Neither pain nor pleasure is an inherent good; where it is destructive and purposeless, it is an evil; where it is productive and purposeful, it is a good. It is the teleology of the thing that determines its moral character.
Neither pain nor pleasure is an inherent good; where it is destructive and purposeless, it is an evil; where it is productive and purposeful, it is a good. It is the teleology of the thing that determines its moral character.