To decide which ultimate ends we ought to pursue, we should appeal to
what humans desire for its own sake
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Mill believed that we all desire our own individual happiness. He concluded that
we should try to maximise the sum-total of everyone's happiness
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Mill's view is
consequentialist (duties are based on consequences)
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Which is closest to Mill's view? Moral judgements are
equivalent in meaning to ordinary empirical judgements (naturalism)
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Mill believes that humans can experience higher pleasures than can pigs - pleasures relating to our intelligence, imagination, and moral feelings. These pleasures are "higher" mainly because they
contain or produce a higher quality of pleasure
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Mill considers the objection that virtue (and not just pleasure) is desired for its own sake. He answers that
virtue is then part of our pleasure -- since we get pleasure out of virtue.
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To decide which ultimate ends we ought to pursue, we should appeal to
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what humans desire for its own sake
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Mill believed that we all desire our own individual happiness. He concluded that
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Mill's view is
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Which is closest to Mill's view? Moral judgements are
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