 | Peter Hicks - 2003 - 510 pages
...Bentham's concept of happiness, emphasizing the significance of its quality and not just its quantity. Better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied, better to be a Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. The higher forms of happiness are the ones we should... | |
 | Christopher Hamilton - 2003 - 452 pages
...pleasures of animals are only of the lower kind Mill thought - as he puts it in a famous aphorism - that it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied. He also put this by comparing the life of the philosopher with that of the fool - who is familiar with... | |
 | Jack Rabin - 2003 - 700 pages
...sentiments of justice. The distinction between higher and lower pleasures is driven by Mill's belief that "it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied" (Ref. 3, p. 10). His argument is that anyone who has experienced lesser pleasures and more cultivated... | |
 | Andrew Bailey - 2004 - 362 pages
...they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all...a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to... | |
 | Henry R. West - 2004 - 240 pages
...contentment. A being with fewer capacities may be more easily contented, but is not thereby happier. "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than...than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party... | |
 | Sabine Doyé, Marion Heinz, Udo Rameil, Holger Kaletha - 2004 - 420 pages
...dieses Kriterium die den Utilitaristen irritierende Frage, warum es nicht bloß arrogant ist zu meinen: "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied." (Vgl. J. St. Mill, On Utilitarianism, Ch. 2, §7) Handlungssubjekte, jene Vernunftsubjekte, für die... | |
 | Daniel R. Chadwick - 2003 - 108 pages
...concerned about the quality of the good as much as the quantity. For example, Mill proclaimed that it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. The human being or Socrates is able to "bear its imperfections" and does not envy the fool or the pig... | |
 | Robert A. Bowie - 2004 - 356 pages
...developed a system of higher and lower pleasures, preferring the higher pleasures to the lower ones: 'It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.' (Mill, 1863, Chapter 2) Mill maintained that the pleasures of the mind were higher than those of the... | |
 | Robert A. Bowie - 2004 - 140 pages
...Pleasures were divided into higher and lower pleasures, preferring the higher pleasures to the lower ones: 'It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.' • Pleasures of the mind are higher than those of the body and are preferred. Act and Rule Utilitarianism... | |
 | Richard J. Norman - 2004 - 192 pages
...life enriched by the striving to use all our human potentialities to the full. As he famously puts it, 'it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied'. Once again we see the relevance, discussed in the previous chapter, of what is special about being... | |
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It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. 
