Combining Philosophers
Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, A.E. Taylor and John Stuart Mill
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23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism
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Actions are right if they promote pleasure, wrong if they promote pain [Mill]
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Utilitarianism only works if everybody has a totally equal right to happiness [Mill]
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Ethics rests on utility, which is the permanent progressive interests of people [Mill]
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The English believe in the task of annihilating evil for the victory of good [Nietzsche on Mill]
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Mill's qualities of pleasure is an admission that there are other good states of mind than pleasure [Ross on Mill]
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23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 2. Ideal of Pleasure
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Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied [Mill]
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Ultimate goods such as pleasure can never be proved to be good [Mill]
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Only pleasure and freedom from pain are desirable as ends [Mill]
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23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 3. Motivation for Altruism
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General happiness is only desirable because individuals desire their own happiness [Mill]
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23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 5. Rule Utilitarianism
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Moral rules protecting human welfare are more vital than local maxims [Mill]
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