Rethinking ‘Higher’ and ‘Lower’ Pleasures | Practical Ethics
WEBApr 20, 2022 · One of John Stuart Mill’s most well-known claims concerns the distinction between higher and lower pleasures. Higher pleasures—which are, roughly, ‘mental’ pleasures—are, says Mill, always preferable to lower …
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WEBOct 9, 2007 · In introducing the doctrine of higher pleasures, Mill appears to want to make some refinement within hedonism (II 3–5). But the higher pleasures doctrine appeals to the informed or idealized preferences of a competent judge and identifies higher pleasures with the object of their preferences (II 5).
John Stuart Mill on The Good Life: Higher-Quality Pleasures
WEBSep 26, 2020 · The 19 th-century philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806–73) answers “yes.” This discussion explains why. John Stuart Mill 1. Mill’s Hedonism. Mill contends that pleasure is not merely one thing that contributes to our well-being, it’s the only thing. Similarly, only pain makes us worse off.
Utilitarianism Chapter 2: What Utilitarianism Is (Part 1) Summary ...
WEBMill delineates how to differentiate between higher- and lower-quality pleasures: A pleasure is of higher quality if people would choose it over a different pleasure even if it is accompanied by discomfort, and if they would not trade it …
WEBHigher and Lower Pleasures. BENJAMIN GIBBS. In the second chapter of Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill writes: It is quite compatible with the principle of utility to recognise the fact, that some kinds of pleasure are more desirable and more valu- able than others.
WEBFollowing West’s approach, this paper further breaks down Mill’s arguments for the proposition that higher pleasures are more valuable than lower ones into five elements: first, there are qualitative differences between pleasures, merely as pleasures; second, the estimation of pleasures, or which pleasure is more valuable, is determined by both ...
Mill's Higher Pleasures and the Choice of Character
WEBJan 26, 2009 · J. S. Mill's distinction between higher and lower pleasures is often thought to conflict with his commitment to psychological and ethical hedonism: if the superiority of higher pleasures is quantitative, then the higher/lower distinction is superfluous and Mill contradicts himself; if the superiority of higher pleasures is not quantitative ...
Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy - Stanford Encyclopedia of …
WEBOct 9, 2007 · Higher pleasures are pleasures caused by the exercise of our higher faculties, whereas lower pleasures are pleasures caused by the exercise of our lower capacities. But this interpretation of the higher pleasures doctrine has some costs.
John Stuart Mill - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBAug 25, 2016 · Mill holds that pleasures “of the intellect, of the feelings and imagination, and of the moral sentiments” are amongst the higher pleasures (Utilitarianism, X: 211). But Mill’s doctrine need not be read as restrictively intellectualist.
Mill, John Stuart: Ethics | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBMill defines “utilitarianism” as the creed that considers a particular “theory of life” as the “foundation of morals” (CW 10, 210). His view of theory of life was monistic: There is one thing, and one thing only, that is intrinsically desirable, namely pleasure.
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