Hedonism, My-Our, I-We

In its prescriptive dimension, Mill's Greatest Happiness for the Greatest Number doctrine is a critique of Selfish Hedonism, i. e. it proposes, as a ground of action, the coordination of My pleasure with Our pleasures.  Hence, it remains a variety of Hedonism, which is essentially a doctrine of passivity, even when he awkwardly attempts to distinguish 'high' pleasures from 'low' ones.  In contrast, the more incisive internal critique of received Hedonism begins by drawing a different distinction among 'pleasures'--between Satiation and Excitation, one of which ends activity, the other stimulates it.  On that basis, because Excitation is observably a stimulus to action, it, unlike Satiation, cannot be contained, which is empirical evidence that it is the quantitatively 'greater' pleasure of the two.  Furthermore, as is also easily confirmable, great excitation, e. g. artistic inspiration, is an impulse to share with others.  So, with a correction of a traditional Psychological conflation, Mill's Hedonism becomes an I-We doctrine.