Discussion
Whom according to the following philosophers, man should carry out activities yielding the maximum pleasure, without making qualitative distinction ?
Answer: C
The philosopher is Bentham.
Bentham's utilitarianism measures pleasures only by quantity, using his hedonic calculus of intensity, duration, certainty, nearness and so on. He held that 'quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry', so he made no qualitative distinction between pleasures.
Mill disagreed and distinguished higher from lower pleasures by quality. Spencer grounded ethics in evolution, and Kant rejected pleasure as the basis of morality altogether.
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