Comparing Utilitarianism And Intuitive School

Utilitarianism Utilitarianism is a collection of thoughts that advocates for the principles of the bigger happiness of the larger number of people. Mill (p.54) comprehensively explained that for people to attain ultimate happiness there must be the greater influence of pleasure and the absence of pain. This is associated with people's knowledge of negative and positive actions created by the punishments and praises one is entitled to get. Mill (p.65) clearly stipulates that the theories are logically divided into two categories: First, the inductive school and intuitive school. These two schools of thought explains that actions of an individual is judged whether its right or wrong through when it intends to promote the ultimate
Moreover, Mill (p.121) is against the categories of the imperatives. He argues that the categorical imperative is similar, and the same to the utilitarianism as it also involves calculating the good and the bad things brought by individual's actions. Hence both Utilitarianism and categorical imperative helps in the determination of the morality of the actions of an individual. In addition, Utilitarianism also entails the exclusion of mathematical sum of the pleasures minus the pains and sufferings the people get. However, it measures the quantity that includes the intensity and durations the pain or happiness has on the individual. For instances, the happier an individual is, the lesser their sufferings hence they received no pain and vice visor. Therefore, the concept of happiness is considered as the directive rule of the human
First, he tabled that, social utility controls all the moral features in the context to justice. The main two concepts and elements in the notion of justice are mainly related to the violation of human rights and the punishment that are the consequence of these violations. He stipulates that punishment comes as a result of the combination of the revenge and the collective social sympathy. Again, he said that the revenge do not contain any moral element nor social sympathy. Therefore, the utility may lead to the violation of rights; since they are the claims a person have on the society to protect them. Mills concludes that the social utility should be the reason the societies protect