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| John Stuart Mill claimed in "Utilitarianism" that all action could be reduced to the pursuit of pleasure. | |
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| But it was a revisionist version of Jeremy Bentham's utilitarianism, which had claimed that all pleasures were of equal worth. | |
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| That's so. Mill held that intellectual pleasures were superior to merely sensual ones, and that "it is...better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied". | |
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| Nevertheless, is it not demeaning to mankind to say that we have no nobler aim than personal pleasure? | |
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| Well, it's been fun. I'd better get back to spitting in the Chicken Royales at Burger King. | |
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| Okay, see you later. I've still got a few hours until my temping job in William Hague's willy-waashing shop starts. | |
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