 He believed that higher pleasures should be seen as preferable to lower pleasures since they have a greater quality in virtue.He holds that pleasures gained in activity are of a higher quality than those gained passively.Thus, to sing the leading role in a Verdi opera at La Scala would be in a far higher category of pleasure, qualitatively, than to loll back on the sofa eating a beefburger, quaffing beer from a can and watching a hardcore pornographic film.