THREE:Meanwhile, hedonism had been temporarily taken up by Plato, and developed into the earliest known form of utilitarianism. In his Protagoras, he endeavours to show that every virtue has for its object either to secure a greater pleasure by the sacrifice of a lesser pleasure, or to avoid a greater pain by the endurance of a lesser pain; nothing being taken into account but the interests of the individual agent concerned. Plato afterwards discarded the theory sketched in the Protagoras for a higher and more generous, if less distinctly formulated morality; but while ceasing to be a hedonist he remained a utilitarian; that is to say, he insisted on judging actions by their tendency to promote the general welfare, not by the sentiments which they excite in the mind of a conventional spectator.
Cras porttitor imperdiet volutpat. Nulla malesuada lectus eros ut convallis felis consectetur ut
Proin eget ipsum ultrices, aliquet velit eget, tempus tortor. Phasellus non velit sit amet diam faucibus molestie. Mauris sapien eros, mattis et elit non, tincidunt efficitur nisi augue dui iaculis nulla, a pretium nisl turpis vel augue auctor viverra aliquam .
