The Benthamite utilitarian says everybody's preferences count and they count regardless of what people want, regardless of what makes different people happy.
边沁功利主义者认为每个人的偏好都有意义,不论人们所欲何为,不论其喜好各有不同。
What do you conclude from that about John Stuart Mill's test that the test of a higher pleasure is whether people who have experienced both prefer it?
那么你对穆勒的结论,有何看法,他认为,两种快乐都感受过的人,更偏好的就是高级快乐?
I think the conclusion is that Mill's theory that when a majority of people are asked what they would rather do, they will answer that they would rather engage in a higher pleasure.
我认为结论是,就穆勒的理论而言,当大多数人被问及他们的偏好时,他们都会说自己更愿意选择高级快乐。
Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it -- in other words, no outside, no independent standard -- then, that is the more desirable pleasure."
这两种快乐中,如果所有或几乎所有,两种都体验过的人,都更偏好其中一种,而且并不是出于任何道德责任-,换句话说,没有外界的,独立的标准影响-,那么该快乐就是更令人满意的“
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