PHIL 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ray Donovan
1 Apr 2019
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Next exam: 3/14: utilitarianism as a standard, util. says: go out into the world and be and impartial pleasure-promoter. Is this the correct standard for morality: questions for mill"s theory. Conside this argument: 10 million people watch and enjoy the masked singer, only 2 million people watch and enjoy ray donovan. Conclusion: therefore, the masked singer is a better tv show than ray donovan. Why this argument fails: the quantity of the enjoyment does not tell us about the quality of the shows. Mill says: no, the pigs life is missing something. Mills key point: promoting pleasure in the right way requires focusing on the quality not just quantity: why this matters. It changes the way we understand what the ghp requires of us: we are required to bring about the *best* pleasure outcome, which may. Not be the outcome with the most pleasure. He must: without defining it in terms of some non-pleasure value.
