PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Mount Everest, Epicurus, Act Utilitarianism

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 100
• Professor: Young James O.

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Pleasure is the only thing desirable in itself ex: pleasure is an intrinsic good (good in itself) Extrinsic >good as a means to something good in itself (ex: going to the dentist) Another name for mill"s position is epicurianism. Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference that is the more desirable pleasure . Subjective interest: what one would like right now. Objective interest: what one would like, all things considered breathing would be a subjective interest of an objective interest as its something that you like right now, and continue doing. Would being attached to a machine that gave you the pleasures of climbing mount everest. Mills reply: he is setting out an ideal of moral behaviour. If i am obligated to do x then i can do x.