Episode notes
As I sit back and enjoy some music after a long day at work, I can't help but ponder on the variety of music we all enjoy. There certainly are a lot of people who would listen to the music of Justin Bieber all day and others would tune in on Beethoven. Yet between the two, who is actually better, Bieber or Beethoven? In fact, this is a question that often gets thrown around, is there a certain kind of entertainment that is more superior than others and when we debate these things, do we always have to resort to subjective considerations; is there an objective way of weighing in on this debate? I think the answer lies in philosophy and specifically the field of utilitarianism. It presents us a good metric to compare works of art and media and I look at the thoughts of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill.