Kinds of pleasures according to mill
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A summary of Chapter 2: What Utilitarianism Is (Part 1) in John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism. Learn exactly what happened in this Moreover, Mill contends, it is an "unquestionable fact" that, given equal access to all kinds of pleasures, people will prefer those that appeal to their "higher" faculties. A person will not choose to.
Description:The distinction between quantity and quality of pleasures is absent from the utilitarianism of the older generation Bentham was as concerned with quality as with quantity … [he has been] typecast as a villain in a story in which he was presenting a shallow quantitative approach. Mill, for example, has been accused, again and again, of being an inconsistent utilitarian because he held that, when comparing the value of two pleasures, we should not forget to take their quality into account. Bentham, on the other hand, is said to have been more consistent, but less subtle, because he thought that we should take only quantity into consideration. With Personal Recollections, Longmans, London, I do not see a difference of quality at all
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