John Stuart Mill | Utilitarianism
Mill criticizes existing ethical theories based on abstract principles that fail to apply directly to human action and its consequences. He builds on earlier conceptions of utilitarianism from Epicurus to Bentham by distinguishing between different qualities of human pleasure, which include both the intellectual and the sensual (the higher and lower pleasures).
-Opponents of utilitarianism have not understood that human pleasures include those of the intellect as well as those of
A) instruction.
B) sensation.
C) cognition.
D) conscience.

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Mill argues that human pleasures include both intellectual pleasures and sensual (or sensory) pleasures, which he refers to as higher and lower pleasures.