Mills Utilitarianism
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- Mill Utilitarianism
- Higher Pleasures
- Intellectual, such as listening to classical music.
- Can only be achieved once the lower pleasures are fulfilled.
- Lower pleasures
- Physical, e.g. eating and sleeping.
- Believed Act utilitarianism was correct, but had irrefutable problems.
- He prioritised the quality of pleasure of quantity.
- Sadistic guards example.
- This way people could not justify harming others for the sake of a lower pleasure.
- Advantages
- Maintains relativism while providing a stronger safe guard against immoral actions.
- Prioritises intellectual pleasures, which encourages people to better themselves.
- Disadvantages.
- Does not consider the subjectivity of higher an lower pleasures
- Some people may consider sex a higher priority than reading shakespeare.
- Not everyone enjoys the same things.
- Still fairly easily manipulated and can still allow immoral actions.
- In order print copies of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", trees are felled. Fewer trees results in further global warming.
- Does not consider the subjectivity of higher an lower pleasures
- Higher Pleasures
- Important Quotes.
- "Better a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied. Better Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied."
- Mill Utilitarianism
- Higher Pleasures
- Intellectual, such as listening to classical music.
- Can only be achieved once the lower pleasures are fulfilled.
- Lower pleasures
- Physical, e.g. eating and sleeping.
- Believed Act utilitarianism was correct, but had irrefutable problems.
- He prioritised the quality of pleasure of quantity.
- Sadistic guards example.
- This way people could not justify harming others for the sake of a lower pleasure.
- Advantages
- Maintains relativism while providing a stronger safe guard against immoral actions.
- Prioritises intellectual pleasures, which encourages people to better themselves.
- Disadvantages.
- Does not consider the subjectivity of higher an lower pleasures
- Some people may consider sex a higher priority than reading shakespeare.
- Not everyone enjoys the same things.
- Still fairly easily manipulated and can still allow immoral actions.
- In order print copies of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", trees are felled. Fewer trees results in further global warming.
- Does not consider the subjectivity of higher an lower pleasures
- Higher Pleasures
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