Madhumita Mitra

Vidyasagar College, University of Calcutta
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    MORAL SUPERIORITY OF PASSIVE EUTHANASIA - AMYTH
    Proceedings of the First Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion and Philosophy ( Acerp) 2011, Issn : 2187-476X. 2012.
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    A Pleasurable Life: J. S. Mill Re-visited
    Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 12 241-245. 2018.
    The traditional interpretation of Mill’s ‘qualitative superiority of pleasure’ urges that pleasures can be qualitatively distinguished in terms of mental or intellectual pleasure on the one hand and physical or sensuous pleasure on the other. The traditional interpretation assumes that Mill, by introducing ‘qualitative dimension’ in his value theory, has stressed upon living a purely intellectual life, ignoring physical or sensuous life. On this understanding, Mill’s qualitative distinction betw…Read more