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Pleasure from the Perspective of… A. Ghanbarian  &  A. Asgari Yazdi (117

               In  general,  on  Bentham's            logistic  hedonism  and  based
            utilitarianism,  research  has            ethical hedonism on it:

            been conducted in the form of                Nature has placed mankind
            books, thesis, and essays. Also,             under  the  governance  of
            in  this  research,  the  quantity           two     sovereign     masters,

            and quality of permissible and               pain and pleasure. It is for
            useful  pleasures  have  been                them  alone  to  point  out
            identified from the perspective              what  we  ought  to  do,  as

            of Qur’anic verses.                          well  as  to  determine  what
               When  the  human  soul  and               we shall do.
            its powers are discovered and                On  the  one  hand,  the

            explained;      such     as     the          standard  of  right  and
            pleasure of approaching God,                 wrong,  on  the  other  the
            people  will  strive  to  achieve            chain of causes and effects,

            them      and     correct     their          is  fastened  to  their  throne.
            intentions, their mental desires,            They  govern  us  in  all  we
            and interests accordingly.                   do, in all we say, in all we
                                                         think:  every  effort  we  can
            The Compatibility Foundations                make  to  throw  off  our
            of  Bentham  Theories  with                  subjection, will serve but to
            Qur’an
                                                         demonstrate and confirm it.

            1. Psycho-Logistic Hedonism                  (Bentham, 2017)
            in Qur’an                                    As can be seen, in the above
            Jeremy  Bentham,  as  well  as            expression,  the  foundation  of

            his  famous  student  John                ethical  hedonism  is  based  on
            Stuart Mill, accepted psycho-
                                                      psycho-logistic  hedonism;  Of
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