PHL275H1 Lecture Notes - Sun Tanning, Experience Machine
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1)simple pleasures ex. physical pleasure, they are discrete items and you can have several at a time, these may be qualitatively different ex. Eating chocolate vs. sun tanning, but they share a common quality of pleasantness. 2)overall good mood, it permeates your consciousness so that you can"t have more than one at the same time ex. You can"t be in a good mood and bad mood at once. All involve pleasantness or buzz, pleasure is one intrinsic good, and pain is one intrinsic evil, hedonism makes the stronger claim that pleasure is the only good and pain the only evil. View 1)in principle they are all equally good, given the same intensity and duration, physical pleasure is just as good as life-satisfaction, there may be difference along the two dimensions ex. Physical pleasures are intense but they don"t last long, while life-satisfaction tends to be more lasting but not so intense.
