PHIL 1413 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: John Stuart Mill
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The utility of an action is that which is useful to us is what makes benefits the most greatest good . now . The best good people number of an is or action that has which the. Actions are happiness . as right and in the proportion that wrong in the proportion they that tend they to promote inflict reverse. Unhappiness . pain , unhappiness , privation of pleasure. Pleasure is the desirable end only anything we desire is because its pleasures on its a means. Critique : degrading view human nature as it to something pleasurable beings shows human of higher have no life of or noble goal than more pleasure a swine. It is not utilitarian that degrades human . the critics in their assumption that human beings. "sresponse . beings , not are it is capable in noble. Human beings have pleasures . lower faculties like appetites and.