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).
-Selecting a pleasure accompanied by discontent over any quantity of another pleasure suggests that the preferred pleasure holds a superiority in
A) amount.
B) quality.
C) magnitude.
D) number.

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Mill argues that some pleasures are of higher quality than others, and people may choose them even if they come with some discontent, indicating a preference for quality over mere quantity or magnitude.