PHIL 157 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, Industrial Revolution

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 157
• Professor: Mark Smith

Document Summary

Hope to give and objective reply to this question. Beginnings and pursuits of industrial revolution o. Brings gigantic transformations of economy and way of life: mechanization of work - more machines, means of production o. Coal mining to power steam powered machines to make steel: development of the working class, brought into factories - little regulations for workplace. Industry grows: high illness and disease, workplace accidents. Philosopher and economist, knows the living conditions of the working class: wrote founding text of utilitarianism in 1789. Looks at why we say the lack of pleasure in peoples life is wrong. Calls 2 masters of sovernity pleasure and pain. We have a well grounded experience of whether something is good or bad. Desire to achieve pleasure, get the most pleasure we can. Every organic being wants the same 2 things. John stewart mill: greatest happiness principle. Empirical - claim to know only because of experience.