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Utilitarianism
- Form
- Form Philosophy
- Year
- Year 1863
- Pages
- Pages 120
Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied: Mill wrote that line to answer the jeer that his creed was a philosophy fit for pigs, and the whole book turns on it. Pleasure has kinds and not merely quantities, he insists, and the only competent judges are those who have known both.
It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
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