J.S. Mill on Calliclean Hedonism and the Value of Pleasure

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ID9688096
AutoresTim Beaumont (0000-0002-0778-8027, Sun Yat-sen University, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume58
Fascículo3
Páginas553-578
Data de publicação2019-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDialogue (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0012217318000173
OpenAlexW2968618188
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas22

Maximizing Hedonism maintains that the most pleasurable pleasures are the best. Francis Bradley argues that this is either incompatible with Mill’s Qualitative Hedonism, or renders the latter redundant. Some ‘sympathetic’ interpreters respond that Mill was either a Non-Maximizing Hedonist or a Non-Hedonist. However, Bradley’s argument is fallacious, and these ‘sympathetic’ interpretations cannot provide adequate accounts of: Mill’s identification with the Protagorean Socrates; his criticisms of the Gorgian Socrates; or his apparent belief that Callicles is misguided to attempt to show that the pleasures of the intelligent can be more valuable than the pleasures of fools without also being more pleasurable

Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis) · Epistemology · Hedonism · Mill · Pleasure · SOCRATES · Value (mathematics) · Emile Durkheim and Sociology · Engineering · Historical and Literary Studies · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Psychology