John Stuart Mill

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…

The Case Against Utilitarianism In John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism, he explains that the amount of pleasure and pain is what dictates the morality of actions. An action is justified if it brings more overall pleasure than pain to people. While it is generally agreed upon that pleasure is good and pain is bad, I believe that these qualities by itself cannot determine morality. Utilitarianism is not the right ethical theory to follow because utility is not inherently measurable and pleasure and…

Utilitarianism is the concept illustrated by John Stuart Mill as the maximization of human happiness. (He relates utility to the “greatest happiness principle,” a concept by philosopher Jeremy Bentham.) Mill describes happiness as “pleasure and the absence of pain.” Something of extrinsic value has worth only because of the value or benefits it brings to something else; something of intrinsic value has worth because of the value it possesses even while alone. According to Utilitarianism,…

Aristotle and John Stuart Mill were two famous philosophers known for their studies in politics. Aristotle believes the best form of government is a polis, while Mill believes a more laid back structure is better. He believes the people should be ruled by the harm principles. Although they have very different ideas on how the people should be ruled, there are many similarities between the two. Aristotle was a great philosopher from the BC era. He had very strong views on how the…

Modern Politics Essay Number Two Jessica Arteaga-Ramirez Instructor – Dr. Jackie Vieceli John Stuart Mill on “The Principle of Happiness” John Stuart Mill was a dedicated philosopher on his work on ethics; his definition of the utilitarian principle was very popular. So Mill in his essay on human ethics writes about ways to seek utilitarianism or more specifically, the Greatest Happiness Principle. Mill explains that all action is for the sake of some end, and rules of action. It seems…

consideration the action on the overall happiness of society is important. John Stuart Mill believes in utilitarianism, for example he does not believe ones sole happiness is more important than all those who are concerned. As some may know Mill favors inductive reasoning for being systematic. Mill comes to the conclusion that no matter the circumstances there is no grey area it is either good or bad; extremely straight forward. Since Mill is a utilitarian his morals are pretty concise and do…

John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx are two of the most famous and influential philosophers of all time and while they share a few similarities, they are, for the most part, very different. Marx was totally different from just about everyone that had come before him while Mill, on the other hand, did take the basis of his beliefs from Jeremy Bentham, and his father, James Mill but just the basics, as he made major changes and found many flaws with the initial idea of utilitarianism. Mill did agree on…

happiness and even though some are divided, Socrates and John Stuart Mill both agree on the contrast between high and low quality pleasures in relation to the good life. Mill believes that a person with a high level of intelligence has higher standards of what makes them happy compared to a lower intelligence person. A person with low intelligence can be satisfied with lower quality pleasures and they could consider themselves happy, but Mill argues…

Anthony William Whaley 14 October 2015 Political Theory On, Experiments of Living One of John Stuart Mill’s biggest contribution through his writings was his idea of the “experiments of living”. Mill made this contribution in his classic 1859 book, On Liberty. By “experiments of living” I believe Mill is saying to live life like a test tube; in Mill’s exact words, “different modes of life should be proved practically”. In other words, the ability to be able to do whatever you want, until…

In efforts to find summum bonum or the ultimate good, philosophers during the 20th century began to investigate ethical issues, and tried to create their own versions of an ideal moral code. During this time, John Stuart Mill and Peter Singer base their ethical beliefs in the philosophy of utilitarianism. Both Mill’s essay Utilitarianism and Singer’s work Famine, Affluence and Morality explore the pursuit of happiness and its relation to moral philosophy. The doctrine of utilitarianism…