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Episode 9: Utilitarian Ethics: What Should We Do?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Are You Dissatisfied With Your Life?

i think in the case of the violinist, that, say, the great artist, you see, he's trying to go from quantitative to qualitative pleasure. Qualitativeealy more about what we think is more human or is higher. And i think that's the real problem with trying to work around all this by talking about quality of pleasure. It really sort of elides into concept of, intuitively, what's more valuable. Whatiif it's a painless death? That seems to scew up the calculation,. which we've alluded to a couple of times already,  it's not so bad for people like yunowham who are bent on killing others

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