How Does John Stuart Mill Define Happiness

You are facing a choice that will alter your entire life. It can be difficult to make these kinds of choices, but everyone needs to make these decisions at some point. While you do seem to be having fun at your resort job, I believe that pursuing the nursing degree program will make your life better in general. It may be challenging, but the satisfaction and rewards from achieving your goal will be worth it. From a purely ethical standpoint, pursuing higher quality pleasure or happiness usually ends up being better than low quality pleasure life in the long run. Many philosophers focused on how people can increase their happiness and even though some are divided, Socrates and John Stuart Mill both agree on the contrast between high and low quality pleasures in relation to the good life. Mill believes that a person with a high level of intelligence has higher standards of what makes them happy compared to a lower intelligence person. A person with low intelligence can be satisfied with lower quality pleasures and they could consider themselves happy, but Mill argues …show more content…
Scientists connected electrodes to a man’s brain and with a click of a button; his dopamine receptors fired causing immense pleasure. The ethical conundrum of this experiment is debating whether the electrode man is happy or not. He was experiencing great amounts of low quality pleasure, but he did not have any fulfilment compared to high quality pleasures. Mill would argue that the electrode man was not achieving the good life because his experience was not fulfilling in the bigger picture of life. Other philosophers like John Bentham would say that he has attained the good life but it does seem like a shallow existence. Your resort job is similar to the pleasure of the electrode man. It is enjoyable but your life would be lacking fulfillment if you continued for the rest of your