Mill's Higher Pleasures and the Choice of Character*: Roderick T. Long

Utilitas 4 (2):279-297 (1992)
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Abstract

J. S. Mill's distinction between higher and lower pleasures is often thought to conflict with his commitment to psychological and ethical hedonism: if the superiority of higher pleasures is quantitative, then the higher/lower distinction is superfluous and Mill contradicts himself; if the superiority of higher pleasures is not quantitative, then Mill's hedonism is compromised.

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Roderick Long
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J. S. Mill.Alan Ryan - 1974 - Mind 86 (343):450-452.
Higher and Lower Pleasures.Benjamin Gibbs - 1986 - Philosophy 61 (235):31 - 59.
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