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On Mill's Conception of Higher and Lower Pleasures
Title: On Mill's Conception of Higher and Lower Pleasures
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On Mill's Conception of Higher and Lower Pleasures
“Of two pleasures. If there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference… that is the more desirable pleasure. Now it is an unquestionable fact that those who are equally acquainted with, and equally capable of appreciating and enjoying, both, do give a most marked preference to the manner of existence which employs their higher faculties… It is better to be a human being satisfied than a pig dissatisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a …showed first 85 words of 2282 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 2282 total…we can derive a consensual empirical framework of what these higher and lower pleasures are, and whether higher pleasures as Mill appears to define them would be the choice for every conceivable circumstance. Mill’s utilitarianism, therefore, comes under some considerable consternation if the basis on which we are to determine utility; ie, happiness attained through the acquisition of pleasure and the avoidance of pain, remains subject to such ambiguity.
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**Bibliography**
Bibliography
· Gibbs, B., ‘Higher and Lower Pleasures’, in Philosophy, vol. 61, 1986
· Mill, John Stuart, ‘Utilitarianism’
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