John Stuart Mill says, "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied." This sentiment is an indictment of the glutton but also a pat on the back for:

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Morgan Pacheco

16 August, 21:19

John Stuart Mill says, "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied." This sentiment is an indictment of the glutton but also a pat on the back for:

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Gerald Friedman · Answer 1

The correct answer is: Those who enjoy higher pleasures.

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High or higher pleasures and the enjoyment of higher pleasures can be understood as the act of liking or being amused by complex intellectual endeavors and not by lower ones, such as food and sex, pleasures considered basic and simple.

John Stuart Mill considered virtuous those individuals who were preoccupied with the enjoyment of the finest and more complex expressions of art, literature, and philosophy.

So in his ""It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied." the sentimient is This sentiment is an indictment of the glutton but also a pat on the back for: Those who enjoy higher pleasures.