Mill on Quality and Quantity

Christoph Schmidt‐Petri

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A well known paragraph in Mill's ‘Utilitarianism’ has standardly been misread. Mill does not claim that if some pleasure is of ‘higher quality’, then it will be (or ought to be) chosen over the pleasure of lower quality regardless of their respective quantities. Instead he says that if some pleasure will be chosen over another available in larger quantity, then we are justified in saying that the pleasure so chosen is of higher quality than the other. This assertion is unproblematic.

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2000Philosophy and Public Affairs 1997Donner and Riley on Qualitative Hedonism 1993On Quantities and Qualities of Pleasure

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