Utilitarianism - Early Modern Texts

UtilitarianismJohn Stuart MillCopyright Jonathan Bennett 2017. All rights reserved[Brackets]enclose editorial explanations. Small dots enclose material that has been added, but can be read asthough it were part of the original text. Occasional bullets, and also indenting of passages that are not quotations,are meant as aids to grasping the structure of a sentence or a thought. Every four-point ellipsis .. indicates theomission of a brief passage that seems to present more difficulty than it is launched: September 2005 Last amended: April 2008 ContentsChapter 1: General Remarks1 Chapter 2: What Utilitarianism is4 Higher and Lower Pleasures ..5 Happiness as an Aim ..8 Self-Sacrifice .. 11 Setting the Standard too High? ..12 Is Utilitarianism Chilly? ..13 Utilitarianism as Godless ..15 Expediency ..15 Time to Calculate? ..16 Bad Faith .. 17 Chapter 3: What will motivate us to obey the principle of utility?

situations. The intuitionist school of ethics insists on the necessity of general laws just as much as does the inductive school (as we might label it). They both agree that ·knowing· the morality of an individual action is not a matter of •direct perception but of the •application of a law to an individual case.

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