ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the sense that one can give to the idea of the quality of a pleasure is its distinctive feel or sensation, analogously to the taste of a wine; and that will not help people, partly because they do not know, and do not have much reason to believe, that the 'feel' of a specific pleasure such as that of reading poetry is invariably the same, and partly because even if it were, to classify one 'feel' as superior to another, if it is not done in terms of aspects of the amount of pleasure in some way, involves introducing a new criterion of worth. The chapter explores to establish some other criterion of moral worth, but it will not be possible to maintain that this criterion is also a part of the definition of some happy states of mind and not others.
