{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Experience Machine","description":"Imagine a world where every pleasure is within reach, where happiness is the only currency that counts. Would you trust that world—or would you suspect something vital is missing?\r\n\r\nThe psychology of pleasure is older than philosophy itself, but in the early nineteen seventies, it became the front line of a new moral debate. By then, the English-speaking world was confident in one thing: happiness mattered. Utilitarian philosophers, following thinkers like Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, had long treated pleasure and pain as the ultimate measures of value. By the twentieth century, this idea had sharpened into philosophical hedonism—the claim that what makes a life good is how it feels from the inside. That view was tempting. Pleasure is direct, personal, and unmistakable. But under the surface, it was fragile. It left a question hanging in the air: if all that matters is feeling good, does anything else—truth, reality, achievement—really count?\r\n\r\nAurelius and Malik take on this case in full — 5 chapters, 33 minutes, one complete story.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thephilosophyarchive.com/philosophy/experience-machine","author_name":"The Archive Network"}