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Single Idea 3765
[filed under theme 23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 2. Ideal of Pleasure
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Full Idea
Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends.
Gist of Idea
Only pleasure and freedom from pain are desirable as ends
Source
John Stuart Mill (Utilitarianism [1861], Ch.2)
Book Ref
Mill,John Stuart: 'Utilitarianism (including On Liberty etc)', ed/tr. Warnock,Mary [Fontana 1962], p.257
The
17 ideas
from 'Utilitarianism'
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7202
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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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6697
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Moral rules protecting human welfare are more vital than local maxims
[Mill]
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3763
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Ultimate goods such as pleasure can never be proved to be good
[Mill]
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5935
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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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3764
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Actions are right if they promote pleasure, wrong if they promote pain
[Mill]
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3766
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Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied
[Mill]
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3765
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Only pleasure and freedom from pain are desirable as ends
[Mill]
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3767
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Motive shows the worth of the agent, but not of the action
[Mill]
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3769
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With early training, any absurdity or evil may be given the power of conscience
[Mill]
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3768
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Orthodox morality is the only one which feels obligatory
[Mill]
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3771
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Virtues only have value because they achieve some further end
[Mill]
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3772
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The will, in the beginning, is entirely produced by desire
[Mill]
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3770
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General happiness is only desirable because individuals desire their own happiness
[Mill]
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3774
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Rights are a matter of justice, not of benevolence
[Mill]
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3775
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A right is a valid claim to society's protection
[Mill]
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3776
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Utilitarianism only works if everybody has a totally equal right to happiness
[Mill]
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3773
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No individual has the right to receive our benevolence
[Mill]
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