Higher and Lower Pleasures

This video presents the same text shown beside it, spoken and on screen. It adds nothing the text does not say.

State

Mill's refinement: pleasures differ in quality, not only quantity—those who know both kinds prefer the higher, whatever the cost in contentment.

Show

Mill's verdict: better Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied—and the fool is no judge, having heard one side.

Builds on