PHIL 1002 Study Guide - Experience Machine, Wine, John Stuart Mill
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So desires that you have control over reaching you don"t have yet: you then get into this notion of pursuit and avoidance (aversion), objects that make you happy, remember to tell yourself what general nature they are. 4: we are disturbed by principles and notions, which convern things, not by things themselves. We are hindered or disturbed or grived, - we never attribute it to others but to ourselves; If you wish though to have your desires undisappointed, it"s in your own control. Exercise what is in your control: behave in life just as you would at a dinner party, take your share with moderation, put out your hand, don"t stretch your desire towards if it hasn"t yet come. c. If you turn your attention to external then be assure that you have ruined your scheme of life: dishonor is an eveil, nature is learned by things we have in common with each other.
