Interpreting Mill's qualitative hedonism

Philosophical Quarterly

Volumn 53, Issue 212, 2003, Pages 410-418

  Riley, Jonathan ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1111/1467-9213.00321     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. C. Schmidt-Petri, 'Mill on Quality and Quantity', The Philosophical Quarterly, 53 (2003), pp. 102-4.
2. See, e.g., Utilitarianism, II 2 and IV 9-12.
3. For a discussion of Mill's hedonism, see R. Crisp, Mill on Utilitarianism (London: Routledge, 1997), chs 2-4. Crisp himself rejects 'full hedonism' because (unlike Mill) he believes 'there are many, many properties of our lives which add to their value independently of enjoyableness [or pleasure]' (p. 35; see also pp. 58-65, 90).
4. 'James Mill's Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind', hereafter JMA, in J.M. Robson (ed.), Collected Works of J.S. Mill (London and Toronto: Routledge and Univ. of Toronto Press, 1963-91), Vol. XXXI, pp. 93-253, at pp. 223-36, 239-42.
5. JMA, pp. 224, 226. Mill claims that 'among our various pleasures, the aesthetic are without doubt the most complex' (p. 225).
6. This statement is a rough summary of Mill's discussion of the ingredients of the sentiment of justice. See Utilitarianism, V 16-25;
7. Utilitarianism, V 25;
8. J. Riley, 'On Quantities and Qualities of Pleasure', Utilitas, 5 (1993), pp. 291-300;
9. 'Is Qualitative Hedonism Incoherent?', Utilitas, 11 (1999), pp. 347-58.
10. See, e.g., Principles of Political Economy, in Collected Works, Vol. 11, pp. 45-6.
11. For two recent examples, see J. Gray, Two Faces of Liberalism (New York: New Press, 2000), pp. 57-62;
12. J. Skorupski, 'Quality of Well-Being: Quality of Being', in R. Crisp and B. Hooker (eds), Well-Being and Morality: Essays in Honour of James Griffin (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000), pp. 239-62.
13. Our Philosophical Traditions (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1955), p. 423.