PHIL 146 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Trolley Problem, First Principle, Rule Utilitarianism
13 Sep 2016
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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness (90r) The theory of life grounds moral theory. Pleasure, and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable (91l) Mill says a doctrine worthy only of a swine . Sitting in library studying vs watching a soccer game while hanging w friends. If the ultimate end is satisfaction, studying may be more good than watching the game. Mill would say that the reading is more pleasurable, it goes with more pain because we dont like it at the moment but we like it when we do good on a test. Question: which is the criterion for something being more valuable merely as pleasure . Watching soccer may have more quantity of pleasure, but studying has more quality of pleasure. If they are equally acquainted with, and equally capable of appreciating and enjoying both (91r)
