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John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism - Qualitatively Higher And Lower Pleasures - Sadler's Lectures
Sadler's Lectures
English - October 29, 2020 21:26 - 17 minutes - 13.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsEducation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century Utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill's work, Utilitarianism
It focuses specifically his discussion in chapter 2, where, after introducing his distinction between higher and lower pleasures, Mill discusses difference in quality of pleasures. There are higher pleasures - associated with higher faculties of the human being - and lower pleasures - associated with lower faculties.
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