Mill's Argument for Higher Pleasures

  1. If competent judges prefer A to any amount of B, then A is a higher quality pleasure and is more desirable.
  2. Competent judges prefer pleasures of the higher faculties to any amount of sensuous pleasures.
  3. Therefore, pleasures of the higher faculties are higher quality pleasures and are more desirable.


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Richard Lee, rlee@uark.edu, last modified: 2 December 2002