• Do you agree with Mill’s assertion that some pleasures are higher than others? What would you consider higher and lower pleasures?
JS Mill's has been depicted as one of the most prominent English-speaking philosophers of the 19th century, Mills wrote “it is better to be human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. Simply meaning a human is higher than a pig and Socrates is higher than a fool. Mills explains how to differentiate between higher- and lower-attributes of pleasures. I can somewhat agree with Mills that some pleasures could be considered higher than others. I believe that Mills is debating that a superior pleasure is more of an experience, such as reading, traveling the world, attending an opera, attaining personal goals or discussing philosophy, whereas lower pleasures focuses mainly on the actual physical pleasures such as eating, drinking or sexual pleasures. However, in Mills assertion …show more content…
Lower pleasures can be described like fast foods, while fine dining is more associated with higher pleasures. Fast food may possibly taste better than it's fine dining counterpart, however, we still associate fine dining as "superior" to fast foods. Or things such as an Opera would be considered a higher pleasure to some opposed to an outside concert venue, again to me that is just a personal preference not something that is superior over the other just because one feels it
JS Mill's has been depicted as one of the most prominent English-speaking philosophers of the 19th century, Mills wrote “it is better to be human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. Simply meaning a human is higher than a pig and Socrates is higher than a fool. Mills explains how to differentiate between higher- and lower-attributes of pleasures. I can somewhat agree with Mills that some pleasures could be considered higher than others. I believe that Mills is debating that a superior pleasure is more of an experience, such as reading, traveling the world, attending an opera, attaining personal goals or discussing philosophy, whereas lower pleasures focuses mainly on the actual physical pleasures such as eating, drinking or sexual pleasures. However, in Mills assertion …show more content…
Lower pleasures can be described like fast foods, while fine dining is more associated with higher pleasures. Fast food may possibly taste better than it's fine dining counterpart, however, we still associate fine dining as "superior" to fast foods. Or things such as an Opera would be considered a higher pleasure to some opposed to an outside concert venue, again to me that is just a personal preference not something that is superior over the other just because one feels it