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Utilitarianism: Mill's Arguments | Principle of Utility

   

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JOHN STUART
MILL'S
UTILITARIANISM
BSA 1-2 Group 7
ETHICS : MODULE 7
Arañes, Pauline Kaye
Magalang, Mark Andrei
Merilo, Crissa
Tumbaga, Rusty
Victoriano, Jenny
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CONTENTS
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Rule Utilitarianism Higher and lower Pleasure
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)03
Definition of Utilitarianism and Its arguments 04
The Greatest Happiness Principle06
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Higher to Lower Form of Pleasures09
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John Stuart Mill was the leading British philosopher of the nineteenth
century, and his famous essay "utilitarianism" is the most influential
statement of the philosophy of utilitarianism: that actions, laws, policies, and
institutions are to be evaluated by their utility or contribution to good or
bad consequences.
English philosopher, economist, and exponent of utilitarianism.
He had a lifelong goal of reforming the world in the interest of human
well-being
One of the most influential thinkers in the
history of classical liberalism, he contributed
widely to social theory, political theory, and
political economy.
“I have learned to seek my
happiness by limiting my
desires, rather than attempting
to satisfy them.”
John Stuart Mill
(1806-1873)
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UTILITARIANISM
John Stuart Mill
It is an essay written to provide support for the value of
utilitarianism as a moral theory, and to respond to
misconceptions about it.
He defines utilitarianism as a theory based on the principle that
"actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote
happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of
happiness."
He defines happiness as pleasure and the absence of pain and
considered both quantity and quality of pleasure.
Mill defines “utilitarianism” as the creed that considers a
particular “theory of life” as the “foundation of morals”
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