In evaluating pleasures, the 5th element is to study the pleasures that result from the specifically human faculties qualitatively higher to those from animal appetites, but it’s practically hard to gather proofs. Mill here has 2 categorizations for assessing pleasures.
For Mill’s Utilitarianism to be understood, the second interpretation needs disjointed notions ,supported by the fist position, since the 2nd is closer to Mill’s situation.
This section can clarify why experienced person’s preferences aren’t adequate for checking the validity of 5th element. Mill’s quality measurements can be understood in two way where 1 says that quaintly has no relative significance if compared with quality. The 2nd, If one pleasure is far greater in quantity it is possible that a higher quantity can overcome the other such that the whole assessment of the pleasure higher in quality may be less than that of the quantity. Mill doesn’t mention this point, he says quality-quantity difference is so indefinite. However the 2nd one can further …show more content…
The second says that higher pleasures aren’t always selected because they aren’t always more valued than the lower. The argument here comes, as West clarified, from the discrepancy whether “the slightest superiority in quality would outweigh any amount of quantity of an alternative on every occasion’’ and that “the slightest distinctively human pleasure is found more gratifying to the feelings than the greatest pleasure from animal appetite”(p.64). After it comes that some may never give on small quantity of higher for a very great quantity of lower pleasures for