Ethics and Values / Unit 4 Ethics 157 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Swine Objection
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The idea
The swine objection: a theory that makes pleasure the measure of life sets a standard fit for pigs, not persons.
In practice
Offer an editor a drugged contentment over difficult, meaningful work. If she refuses — and nearly everyone does — pleasure alone was never the working measure.
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