Is Pleasure Good?

Tom Herker: Pleasure is good but I think that the other things tend to matter more. One form of virtue is being pleased by good things, so if you lead a life with all these values in it and are morally virtuous your life will contain pleasure. It might not be principally valuable just because it's pleasure. Some philosophers would say spend lots of time on internet after work - we've all got it at home. Tom Herker: Ration it the way you ration your kids TV and internet time. You can hear more philosophy bites at www.philosophybites.com.