Mill’s Utilitarianism, mt 2012. C fabre. Handout Week Mill’s Utilitarianism as a theory of the good life I: Happiness and pleasures
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| Mill’s Utilitarianism, MT 2012. C Fabre. Handout Week 2. Mill’s Utilitarianism as a theory of the good life I: Happiness and pleasures. (NB: all references of the form N-n are to Utilitarianism.) 1. Introduction: Mill’s utilitarianism restated. Constitutive elements: (a) maximisation principle; (b) welfarist theory of that which must be maximised (happiness, and only happiness); (c) Happiness is to be understood as pleasure, unhappiness as pain; (d) the possibility of making comparative judgment about different forms of pleasure (and, by implication, of pain); (e) the maximisation of happiness and minimisation of pain are not merely the end of all human action: they are also the standards for morality. Focus of this lecture: what counts as happiness and how, and whether, it can be measured. In other words: Mill’s Utilitarianism as a theory of the good. Directory: ~linc2817 ~linc2817 -> Politics prelims: theorising the democratic state cecile fabre tutorial schedule ~linc2817 -> Mill’s Utilitarianism, mt 2012. C fabre. Week 4 Utilitarianism as a theory of the good III the Proof of utility. Handout ~linc2817 -> Mill’s Utilitarianism, mt 2012. C fabre. Week 3: Mill’s theory of the good life II happiness, Experiences and Desires Handout Download 42 Kb. Share with your friends:
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