Higher and Lower Pleasures – Doubts on Justification

According to the discontinuity view we can have a (lower) pleasure which, no matter how often a certain unit of it is added to itself, cannot become greater in value than a unit of another (higher) pleasure. All recent adherents of this view seem to rely basically on the same sort of reasoning which...

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Main Author: Ryberg, Jesper (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2002
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2002, Volume: 5, Issue: 4, Pages: 415-429
Further subjects:B Discontinuity
B preferences
B J.S. Mill
B Value
B higher pleasures
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