POL 4 Lecture 12: Mill Utilitarianism I&II
7 Mar 2018
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Right defined as what: as mill himself says: i. ii. Which is quite amusing in light of a later comment about how people often criticize theories that they haven"t taken the time to understand properly (153)! He offers a one page refutation to other theories. He himself has not taken time to understand non-teleological theories. He is unlike bentham in that he"s psychologically more sophisticated than. Bentham: mill"s utilitarianism, mill"s passive aggressiveness towards bentham shows up in his writing, undermines. Bentham throughout his works i. ii. iii. i. i. Blames him for his education growing up, for his breakdown: mill gives the greatest happiness principle (ghp) initially as follows: [a]ctions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the opposite of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure. (137) c.
