Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET December 2018 Political Science
Who among the following sought to establish the non-utilitarian proposition that some pleasures are of a higher quality than others?
APriestley
BHutcheson
CJ. Bentham
DJ. S. Mill ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) J. S. Mill — The thinker who held that some pleasures are higher in quality than others is John Stuart Mill.
Explanation
★The thinker who held that some pleasures are higher in quality than others is John Stuart Mill.
★In Utilitarianism he distinguished higher, intellectual and moral pleasures from lower, bodily ones.
★His famous line is that it is better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied, and Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
★This qualitative ranking departs from Bentham, for whom pleasures differed only in quantity.
★By adding quality, Mill answered the charge that utilitarianism was a doctrine fit only for swine.
★The move marks his revision of classical utilitarianism into a more refined, liberal form.
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