Mill's Utilitarianism

Your name

Course name

Course Instructor

Date of Submission

Mill’s utilitarianism

Introduction

Utilitarianism defines an action with respect to its moral worthiness which is mostly determined by its importance in minimizing utility that are negative and maximizing desirable utility in all sentient beings. Utility in this context refers to the activities that lead to pleasure without any pain. Utility should be a preference satisfactory. Utilitarianism can therefore be considered to mean that any action of moral worthiness is solely determined by its final outcome. The theory of Utilitarianism has attracted many contributions from great philosophers with the greatest contributors being Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill.

Mills contribution to Utilitarianism

Mill’s take on Utilitarianism is in support of the utilitarianism value as a moral theory. To him, utilitarianism is a theory of moral that has been based on the fact that desirable actions happen to promote happiness while at the same time wrong actions give rise to the reverse of happiness. His argument on pleasure stands out of the other contributors as he considers it to differ in its quality and quantity. He suggests that the base pleasures should be rooted with less weight in comparison with pleasures of higher faculties. Individual achievements to meet their ends and goals form part of happiness.

Mill suggests the sentiments that originate naturally form the social nature of human beings coincides with utilitarianism. Consequently, human beings would take in ethical standards as moral bindings if utilitarianism was to be embraced as an ethic. His argument is based on the fact that happiness forms the basis of morality. Cahn (126) asserts that most people prioritize happiness to anything else. Mill demonstrated his justification to this claim by indicating that the rest of things people desire fall under the definition of happiness, or are means to gain happiness. He goes further...