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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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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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..."
"...fast along a sluice to turn the wheels of a land mill, not even when its flow approached the paddles, as if my master..."
"...all the time. Um, but you know, in 1950s, C. Wright Mills wrote a book called the power elite, and he described the structure..."
"...his or her own pleasure many people like a John Stuart Mill who would take utilitarianism and then create a liberal society based on..."
"...a very popular book called. The Power Elite. By C. Wright Mills. And he's trying to explain. How American power works. And he makes..."
"...Public. Opinion. So. There's. This. Balance. Right. And. For. C. White. Mills. That's. How. America. Works. At. The. At. The. Very. Top. You. Have...."
"...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..."
"...Levy, the Israeli author, journalist, and commentator at Haaretz, Republican Corey Mills, the Florida congressman and U.S. Army veteran, and Ryan Grim, Breaking Point's..."
"...hit him, if possible, get out. Okay. Let's go to Congressman Mills. First of all, I want to talk about this attack on the..."
"...I did before, and here we are again. Yeah. Um, Congressman Mills, I mean, politically, it's a massive, stupendous roll of the dice by..."
"...discussed in the last class about John Locke, David Hume, Bentham, Mill, Marx, Darwin, okay? These were all thinkers sponsored by Britain. To propose...."
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