PHILOSOPHY Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: John Stuart Mill, Summum

• School: University of the Philippines Manila
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: PHILOSOPHY
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Mill differs radically from bentham on two important points: 1. vehemently against the purely quantitative treatment of the principle of utility. Intrinsic goods are those that are pursued for their own sake. Instrumental goods are those that are used as means for attaining some other good presumably the intrinsic good. Beauty, intelligence, and wealth can be used as means of attaining the intrinsic good like happiness. There is no consensus among moral philosophers regarding the kinds of things that are considered intrinsic good or instrumental good. *core elements of mill"s utilitarianism: utility principle. Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends that is, they are intrinsic goods. All other desirable things are desirable because they produce pleasure or prevent pain: the greatest happiness principle. Mill laid the foundation of his moral philosophy by stating categorically that there is an ultimate good a summum.