Pick one of the following questions about your readings in Dante's Divine Comedy. Pick one of the following questions about your readings in Butler's Five Sermons.
Hedonism is the thesis that pleasure is our sole ultimate end.
Attended Oriel College, Oxford. Became priest in the Church of England and eventually appointed bishop of Bristol, and later of Durham. Butler, like Boethius and Aquinas, believed that philosophical reason, properly deployed, would reach conclusions consistent with the teachings of Christianity. He was particularly interested in the problem of grounding morality in the actual nature of man, as revealed by observation and introspection. He wanted to show that morality could be given rational grounds, independent of but agreeing with the commands of God as represented in the Bible.