Mill's crucial refinement is that pleasure divides into short-term pleasure and long-term happiness, so what feels good now is not necessarily good for life.
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Mill's crucial refinement is that pleasure divides into short-term pleasure and long-term happiness, so what feels good now is not necessarily good for life.
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"Pleasure isn't like, okay, whatever makes me happy. Because there are different types of pleasure. There's short -term pleasure and there's long -term pleasure,..."
"not necessarily to seek pleasure it's it's but it's the purpose is to to seek happiness okay all right so this is a very..."
"...all the time. Um, but you know, in 1950s, C. Wright Mills wrote a book called the power elite, and he described the structure..."
"...good okay and this is from bentham and then john stewart mills will make some we'll make some adjustments to it okay but this..."
"...discussed in the last class about John Locke, David Hume, Bentham, Mill, Marx, Darwin, okay? These were all thinkers sponsored by Britain. To propose...."
"...what's good, what's right, if it benefits someone, okay? John Stuart Mill, liberty of the individual is everything. So making sure that people are..."
"...is inherently good. Okay. And then what his disciple John Stuart Mill will do is he'll take the basis of this idea of utility..."
"...idea of the world. All right. So this is John Stuart Mill and this is Jeremy Bantham. Okay. And not only that, but once..."
"...of, you did terrorism, right? This is Jeremy Bantham, John Stuart Mill. Keep on going."
"...is emphasizing the limitations of British philosophy, right? Law, Hume, Bantham, Mill, they're all limited. And so what the British need is for the..."
"...this theory of utilitarianism, so along comes his disciple, John Stuart Mill. And John Stuart Mill is considered the most significant political philosopher of..."
"...to grow crops, okay? That followed the invention of the water mill, which was a windmill and horse collar, which made it easier for..."
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