John Stuart Mill Qualitative Utilitarianism

Utilitarianism has quite few kinds of branches. Among them, the two types are the main branches, quantitative hedonistic utilitarianism and qualitative hedonistic utilitarianism. Each branche were founded by Jeremy Bentham and his student, John Stuart Mill. And I think Mill’s qualitative hedonistic utilitarianism is more reasonable than the others. Qualitative hedonistic utilitarianism is mainly about higher level of pleasure. He sorts out the pleasures by the level of feeling. As the basic of his thought is from Bentham and his utilitarianism, it surely should think for pleasure for most people. But the difference is that Bentham emphasized quantity, but Mill focused on the quality. Mill said, “It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied”, which means that there is difference between the level of pleasure. The reason that I think Mill’s idea is most plausible is that I believe there is good pleasure and better pleasure. As philosopher Robert Nozick said about pluralistic utilitarians as, “following in the maximization vein of utilitarianism, is to make the choice that leads the greatest promotion of these goods”(Smith 28). People might think about Mill’s …show more content…
Egoism can easily make people to consider about the relationship by profit and loss, which directly relates with money. As the utilitarianism works for the most of people, not all of the people, it compels with collectivism. However, I think to see the level of the pleasure would be better to think of the number of people who gets benefit. People can be grouped by more detailed purpose, and by this diversity, each group would eventually get advantages but for the small part, not like one gets everything and other gets