Pleasures under Mill's Utilitarianism

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Philosophy

 

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Hugh G

 

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June 25, 2016

 

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The latter of the two is able to expand his mind and achieve the highest quality of pleasure, though he must also experience pain; the fool satisfied is of a lower grade of existence, his "capacities of enjoyment are low" (10) and thus has a much greater chance to become fully satisfied, but is unable to experience higher pleasure...
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Mill's addition to the utilitarian school of thought amounts to a modification of utilitarian writers who, Mill says, already "have placed the superiority of mental over bodily pleasures" (8). Though Mill's distinction between the pleasure of humans and the pleasure of satisfied fools appears well-founded, the confinements and restrictions that such a distinction imposes on the beasts undermine his argument...
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