PHIL 111 Lecture 28: Utilitarianism (week 14) - lecture 1
17 Jan 2018
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Mill and the quality and quantity of pleasure. Mill means pleasure in the absence of pain. Proof of that is that for mill, it is encapsulated. Desiring a thing and finding it pleasant is. He argued that everything we desire, we desire because, in some sense, it gives us some sort of pleasure. Mill has the idea that we should be following rules. The idea that it gives pleasure: the fact that somebody would take it as a criticism they are not understanding the nature of humanity. There are high pleasures and low pleasures. the fact of these things need to be taken into consideration. Nobody would trade-off their higher pleasure for lower pleasure. One does not always choose higher pleasure than low. We make trade-offs all the time: e. g. There is an issue of variety: most of us want low pleasures as break from the high pleasure.
