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- pluralplural onlyethicsThe promotion of enjoyment and the reduction of suffering.
More broadly, communal biotics, or ethics, elevates diminution of suffering into a common goal, while culture is that aspect of communal biotics in which people share enjoyment.
1983, William M. Johnston, The Austrian Mind: An Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 2002 more examples
That part of biotics which is a defense against suffering, and accordingly also ethics later on, has four divisions, in correspondence with those four sources of suffering: subhuman nature, man's own nature, his living together with fellow-men, and superhuman powers.
1960, Roland Houde, Joseph Patrick Michael Mullally, Philosophy of Knowledge: Selected Readings, page 16Such art of living, or biotics, practiced first instinctively and changing later into conscious maxims, is not yet ethics (just as that other part of biotics, with the positive aim of enjoyment, is not yet culture).
2012, Felix M. Cleve, The Giants of Pre-Sophistic Greek Philosophy, page xxxvi - pluralplural onlyplural of biotic
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