Bitesize ethics: FoA ’22 Hedonism and Pleasure (Roger Crisp)

The talk will begin with the question of what pleasure is. It will then go on to explain hedonism as a theory about what makes life worth living, and as a theory about how we should act (i.e. utilitarianism). The talk will end by raising some questions about how we should measure pleasure and compare it to pain, and about the practical importance of pleasure and pain for some key ethical decisions.