The distinction between happiness and pleasure is frequently blurred.

The distinction between happiness and pleasure is frequently blurred. In ordinary Language, happiness is frequently used to indicate a more stable, less intense state than pleasure. Yet one could hardly predicate happiness of a life that was altogether without pleasure. While those teleological moralists who have favored utilitarian conceptions of moral obligation have (apart from the late Professor G. E. Moore and his followers) usually adopted a hedonist conception of the end of moral…