John Stuart Mills Utilitarianism Summary
Michael Moore
Intro to Ethics
Reading Summary #18
John Stuart Mills, Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism brought together a lot of ways of thinking that were out there at the time of Mills, but no one sort of gave it a name. I believe Mills makes some improvements on utilitarianism; Shifting the wave of quantitate which is calculating pleasure and pains on an even basis, somewhat like a balance sheet, to qualitative. He’s in fact saying utilitarianism can address any of the things that are right in other moral theories, but we also have more. For an example that does not do this very well, is motive ethics. Because at bottom, according to a motive ethicist, everything boils down to “Because i said so” or “because i feel
Intro to Ethics
Reading Summary #18
John Stuart Mills, Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism brought together a lot of ways of thinking that were out there at the time of Mills, but no one sort of gave it a name. I believe Mills makes some improvements on utilitarianism; Shifting the wave of quantitate which is calculating pleasure and pains on an even basis, somewhat like a balance sheet, to qualitative. He’s in fact saying utilitarianism can address any of the things that are right in other moral theories, but we also have more. For an example that does not do this very well, is motive ethics. Because at bottom, according to a motive ethicist, everything boils down to “Because i said so” or “because i feel