PHIL 1000 Lecture : 012512.doc
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It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. The higher pleasure are the more valuable and desirable because they are the more desired. (35) With respect to our sensory experience the evidence: the proof that the higher pleasure are chosen are because they are desired. That something is visible is a fact and is evidence to what is seen and the same with hearing/heard. Desirable doesn"t really mean the same thing as the rest. Mill was criticized for this and was accused of a fallacy the naturalistic fallacy which hume dealt with previously and called it the. Is/ought problem/fallacey where you derive a value claim from a from a factual claim. That is, one starts with descriptive statements to support a theory and then shifts to the prescriptive.
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