
Thomas Hurka on Pleasure
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Feeling Good Is a Human Value
I don't think we could imagine a good life without pleasure. But feeling good comes in different varieties, it's not all the same kind of thing,. That's what I want to talk about. The classical utilitarian like Jeremy Bentham thought that pleasure was just one thing and there were these kind of pleasure pellets. He actually thinks that there were different types of good feeling. Let me say when I say the pleasure is good, I don't think it's the only good thing. So the best life is not necessarily the most pleasant life. Achievement is a human value. Knowledge is a humanvalue. Being a morally good person is ahuman value. But pleasure is a human Value.
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