![]() ![]() Mill's distinction between the elevated and the base pleasures requires us (or something by which to evaluate the pleasures themselves. Pleasure is no longer sufficient for this task there has to be something else It is that by which to evaluate other things. Pleasure simply IS the way in which we can discern the difference betweenĪctions that are merely permissible and actions that are obligatory, and actions Measuring the goodness and badness of actions. ![]() Problem? One virtue of utilitarianism is that it provides a criterion, a way of This raises aĬriteria do you measure the relative goodness of different pleasures? He is persuaded that some pleasures are better than others. It is ultimately unsatisfying to think that all pleasures are, morally speaking,Įqual. Virtuous life is better than pleasure arising from a scurrilous life.ĭifficulties for Mill's own position - it's a problem for any utilitarian. For Plato, pleasure arising from living a This intuition is held both by religiously minded thinkers, as well as secular Many, many philosophers since the beginning of Western philosophical thought. Human, are more noble - puts him in good company. The distinction Mill wants to make betweenĭifferent types of pleasures - those which, in virtue of being more deeply He's saying that thereĪnd that however difficult it might be to articulate and conceptualize andĮxpress the difference between such pleasures and capacities, the difference Other things, for then he'd be no different than Bentham. That the enjoyment of rational things is more intense, enduring, etc. Position that intellectual, rational pleasures are no better than the base Somehow "higher", or more noble, or dignified than others. There are some human faculties, some human powers and capacities that are To the degree that a thing is pleasurable, to that degree it's good. Worse or better than bringing a priest to a hospital emergency room to bringĮnjoyment of a meal than a pig's enjoyment of its meal. Robbins ice cream is no worse or better than enjoying a Shakespearean sonnet.īuying a bunch of tickets for neighborhood kids go to a WWF smackdown is no That, morally speaking, is any better than another. (review earlierĭocument on the criteria by which to measure pleasure and pain).Īccording to Bentham, there is no pleasure That it is either more intense, longer, more immediate, etc. Recall that for Bentham, all pleasures are ofĪ single kind - the only way in which one is more important than another is Though there are numerous ways in which Mill's versionĭeparts from Bentham's, there is one difference that is most important for you ![]() Jeremy Bentham established utilitarianism as aĭominant ethical theory, and John Stuart Mill developed it during the middle and ![]()
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