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“There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.”

Art Turns Theory Tendencies Preference

Book:i lost it at the movies

Source: i lost it at the movies

“[On Jung's theory of psychological types:] My mother, Katharine C. Briggs, introduced it into our family and made it a part of our lives. She and I waited a long time for someone to devise an instrument that would reflect not only one's preference for extraversion or introversion but one's preferred kind of perception and judgment as well. In the summer of 1942 we undertook to do it ourselves.”

Wells Kind Long Made Mother Our Lives Theory Type Judgment Perception Summer Long Time Instruments Psychological Made It Our Family Preference Introversion Jung

Author:Isabel Briggs Myers

“The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of subjective taste. But differences in character are ethically of the most fundamental importance.”

Matter Character Differences Serious Theory Taste Consequence Importance Regard Fundamentals Mere Confusion Ethical Preference Subjective Temperament

Book:Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

“Critics of Consequentialism have often assumed that hedonism (or preference-satisfaction) must be the theory of the good, that the deontic principle must be maximizing, and that the principle should be applied to individual acts. Indeed, this version is often called "classical utilitarianism" and attributed to Bentham and sometimes even to Mill. Rather than a "classical" view it is a recent construction foisted on to the tradition.”

Should Sometimes Individual Views Principles Theory Tradition Critics Satisfaction Versions Construction Preference Mills Hedonism Utilitarianism Maximizing Consequentialism

Author:Dale Jamieson