This thinker argued that a competent judge would prefer pleasures caused by our intellectual faculties even “knowing it to be attended with a greater amount of discontent.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this philosopher who distinguished between “higher” and “lower” pleasures, claiming “it’s better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied,” in his book Utilitarianism.
ANSWER: J. S. Mill [or John Stuart Mill]
[10h] Mill’s distinction between higher and lower pleasures stands in contrast to Jeremy Bentham, who famously claimed that “quantity of pleasure being equal” this card game is as good as poetry.
ANSWER: push-pin
[10m] This thinker’s Enquiry Concerning Political Justice argues that, in a fire, it is better to save the archbishop of Fenelon than his valet, since the archbishop has a greater capacity for “refined and genuine happiness.”
ANSWER: William Godwin
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