PHILOS 1B03 Lecture : Philos 1B03 #2 Class.docx
16 Oct 2013
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Sp philosophy"s concerned with the best way to arrange our collective lives. Excerpt from textbook summary: prevent person from harming another. Pg 2 from textbook: i regard utility as a progressive being . Utility: property which attaches to anything with contributes to pleasure and privation of pain. Disutility: property which attaches to anything that promotes pain and deprives us of pleasure. An action which tends to maximize overall utility or minimize overall disutility is right. Ol: never restrict liberty except to prevent harm. Although all pleasures are good, they aren"t equally good. People that have experience both higher and lower pleasures usually enjoy the higher pleasures better. Needs to be cultivated, it doesn"t just happen. You can"t force someone to experience higher pleasure. It"s ultimately up to the individual to cultivate a taste for higher pleasures. Ex) i can force someone to watch the opera, but i can"t force them to enjoy it.
