...hardly deigns to count the lower pleasures as worth putting in the scale; it is better, he thinks, to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied;...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. If the pig or the fool is of a different opinion," it is because they only know their own side of the...

...are with theirs It is better to be a human being dissatisfied, than a pig satisfied; better to be a Socrates dissatisfied, than a fool satisfied. And...different opinion, it is because they only know their own aide of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides." — Mill, Op. cit., pp....

...persuaded that the fool, the dunce or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs It is better to be a human being dissatisfied, than a pig satisfied; better to be a Socrates dissatisfied, than a fool satisfied. And if the fool or the pig are of a different opinion,...

...persuaded that the fool, the dunce or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs It is better to be a human being dissatisfied, than a pig satisfied; better to be a Socrates dissatisfied, than a fool satisfied. And if the fool or the pig are of a different opinion,...

...says that the pleasures which result from the exercise of the higher faculties are to be preferred. " It is better to be a human being dissatisfied, than...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied." Whether it is possible to stretch, and qualify, and attenuate the conception of pleasure sc as to make...

...environment, that we can distinguish pleasures as differing qualitatively (тш »tí«), and say with Mill, ' It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied' (Utilitarianism, p. 14). It is sometimes urged that Mill has no right 'on his own principles ' to say...

...any pleasures into quantitative. It is not open to a consistent hedonist to say with Mill l that " it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied." We may, as systematic empirical hedonists, hold that " it is quite compatible with the principle of...

...nature, with its higher demand of happiness, carries with it inevitably a certain discontent. Yet " 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...

...relativity of pleasures to character and faculty ; 2 and it is even more evident in the judgment that "it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than...satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied."3 In such a statement, "better," v plainly, does not mean more pleasant. The idea of pleasure...

...all the faculties of man in due subordination to one another, is the true end of life. To say that "it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied " is to say that, human nature being infinitely higher than pig nature, the man who makes pleasure...