John Stuart Mill’s version of utilitarianism also differed from Jeremy Bentham’s in the concept of quantitative versus qualitative pleasures. While Bentham believed that there are no higher or lower pleasures and that every pleasure can be rated by its quantity regardless of what kind of pleasure it is, Mill believed that some pleasures are higher than others. Mill believed that getting a lesser amount of pleasure out of a mental act as opposed to getting a greater amount of pleasure out of a physical act was in fact a higher and better pleasure because mental pleasures are greater than physical pleasures. The quantity of pleasure doesn’t matter when it is a mental pleasure versus a physical
