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friendly introduction to Mill’s utilitarianism available. This book serves as both a commentary to and interpretation of the text. It also defends Mill against his critics. The first chapter traces Mill’s life and philosophical background. The second chapter analyzes Mill’s arguments against alternative theo-ries.
The ethical theory of John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) is most extensively articulated in his classical text Utilitarianism (1861). Its goal is to justify the utilitarian principle as the foundation of morals. This principle says actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote overall human happiness.
Abstract. This paper considers the writings of John Stuart Mill in political philosophy and political economy as a prototype for ideals of a 'sustainable development' grounded in a norm of...
For example, Mill introduces utilitarianism in the following way: “The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happi-ness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness” (210 [II, 2]).
Mill’s argument for a hedonistic theory of value: morality must have a purpose; the Art of Life and morality’s place within it; the anti-utilitarians – Kant and Whewell and duty for duty’s sake; what’s wrong with intuitionist and moral sense theories. Moving on from Bentham: Quantity and Quality.
A major goal of Mill in this chapter is to show how ‘the subjective mental feeling of justice’ can be explained in a way that is consistent with a utilitarian account of ethics, according to which ‘justice [is] only a particular kind or branch of general utility’ (CW X, pp. 240–1).
3 gru 2009 · Utilitarianism is the ethical theory that the production of happiness and reduction of unhappiness should be the standard by which actions are judged right or wrong and by which the rules of morality, laws, public policies, and social institutions are to be critically evaluated.
