1. Bentham believed that happiness is pleasure and pleasure is the highest good in life, and that an action is right if causes the greatest pleasure for somebody. I think Utilitarianism means whether or not an action will cause pleasure or pain. The best example that I can remembered it is to kill the fat man or save five lives? I will save the five people because I am going to minimized the pain of five families instead of one. I think he focused here in quantity of people that I am going to save and not in the quality of the people that are tie in the tract of the train.
2. Mill also thinks that an action is right so far as it brings the great amount of pleasure to people and also believe that we need to know how to behave according to benefits of society instead of thinking on ourselves. The higher and lower pleasure that’s the only thing that differ from Bentham. He argues that only those who have experienced both pleasure and pain know that happiness is often difficult, and that pain sometimes is inevitable. …show more content…
Sidgwick believes that happiness or pleasure are not the only things that each man actually desires for himself, that’s how the reject Mill, he believed that the fact that we desire or wish something doesn’t mean anything to him. He believed that utilitarianism seeks to contribute to the happiness of all persons affected by the act and indicated that ends other than happiness might be acceptable, and that guidelines other than those that promote happiness might be suitable means to an end. Sidgwick argued that neither the first nor the last could, by itself, supply an adequate basis for rational
2. Mill also thinks that an action is right so far as it brings the great amount of pleasure to people and also believe that we need to know how to behave according to benefits of society instead of thinking on ourselves. The higher and lower pleasure that’s the only thing that differ from Bentham. He argues that only those who have experienced both pleasure and pain know that happiness is often difficult, and that pain sometimes is inevitable. …show more content…
Sidgwick believes that happiness or pleasure are not the only things that each man actually desires for himself, that’s how the reject Mill, he believed that the fact that we desire or wish something doesn’t mean anything to him. He believed that utilitarianism seeks to contribute to the happiness of all persons affected by the act and indicated that ends other than happiness might be acceptable, and that guidelines other than those that promote happiness might be suitable means to an end. Sidgwick argued that neither the first nor the last could, by itself, supply an adequate basis for rational