Mill’s Indirect Proof of the Principle of Utility: Psychological Hedonism and the Paradox of the AsceticMill’s Indirect Proof of the Principle of Utility: Psychological Hedonism and the Paradox of the Ascetic
Moore’s criticism (§iii). Finally, I will show that because Mill’s account of psychological hedonism is inconsistent with remarks he makes elsewhere in Utilitarianism about the “ascetic on his pillar
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Consequentialism/Utilitarianism Handout Utility versus The Experience Machine: Bentham v. Nozick Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)Consequentialism/Utilitarianism Handout Utility versus The Experience Machine: Bentham v. Nozick Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Bentham argues for utility/value to be judged based on the primacy of pleasure. This view is known as hedonic utilitarianism
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Impartiality: kant and millImpartiality: kant and mill
And second, that the range of these principles, the set of objects they concern, is human, or rational, or sentient beings. On this view the fundamental principles of practical reason mandate some form of impartiality as between the beings in
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Mill’s Indirect Proof of the Principle of Utility: Psychological Hedonism and the Paradox of the AsceticMill’s Indirect Proof of the Principle of Utility: Psychological Hedonism and the Paradox of the Ascetic
Moore’s criticism (§iii). Finally, I will show that because Mill’s account of psychological hedonism is inconsistent with remarks he makes elsewhere in Utilitarianism about the “ascetic on his pillar
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Mill’s Utilitarianism, mt 2012. C fabre. Week 4 Utilitarianism as a theory of the good III the Proof of utility. HandoutMill’s Utilitarianism, mt 2012. C fabre. Week 4 Utilitarianism as a theory of the good III the Proof of utility. Handout
In ch 4 of U, Mill seeks to prove that the utility principle is true. Does he succeed?
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