PHI 2183 Lecture Notes - James Mill, Egalitarianism, Consequentialism
20 Apr 2014
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Rawls" egalitarian theory and nozick"s libertarian critique march 11, 2014. Intuitionism allows for a plurality of principles of maximum generality, but the priority problem; you can"t adjudicate conflicts between principles and different people have different indifference curves. Rawls believes principles should be ordered lexically, and both hold that morality should be deduced from principle. Every intuitionist/pluralist thinks maximising utility is one good thing but there are others; fairness, promises made, etc. (see kymlicka and lending money) Mill chapter 5 talks of happiness as going beyond pleasure-pain. Mill more accommodating; bentham human happiness different than pig"s happiness. Bentham says one will not substitute higher pleasures for lower ones. Mill wants to be conciliatory and at the same time wants to be loyal to bentham and this father, james mill. Mill suggests he is a hedonic utilitarian, and wants to be a one value philosopher. Some utilitarians accepted general welfare, well-being, preference satisfaction- like consequentialism.
