Notes on Utility
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• Greek origins of utility as in Aristotle’s trichotomy of utility, pleasure, and virtue as the three goads for friendship ([5] Nichomachean Ethics Book VIII) from which follows a broad discussion of the nature of friendship, • or Epicurus’s linking of utility to happiness ([8]) and his discussion of justice: Natural justice is a symbol or expression of usefulness, to prevent one person from harming or being harmed by another— leading to his definition of justice: useful for mutual association—
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