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Single Idea 7202

[filed under theme 23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism ]

Full Idea

One continues to believe in good and evil: in such a way that one feels the victory of good and the annihilation of evil to be a task (- this is English; a typical case is that shallow-headed John Stuart Mill).

Gist of Idea

The English believe in the task of annihilating evil for the victory of good

Source

comment on John Stuart Mill (Utilitarianism [1861]) by Friedrich Nietzsche - Writings from Late Notebooks 11[148]e

Book Ref

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Writings from the Late Notebooks', ed/tr. Bittner,Rüdiger [CUP 2003], p.230

A Reaction

The poor old English try very hard to be clear, sensible, practical and realistic, and get branded as 'shallow' for their pains. Nietzsche was a deeper thinker than Mill, but I would prefer Mill to Heidegger any day.

The 17 ideas from 'Utilitarianism'

7202 The English believe in the task of annihilating evil for the victory of good [Nietzsche on Mill]
6697 Moral rules protecting human welfare are more vital than local maxims [Mill]
3763 Ultimate goods such as pleasure can never be proved to be good [Mill]
3767 Motive shows the worth of the agent, but not of the action [Mill]
3765 Only pleasure and freedom from pain are desirable as ends [Mill]
3764 Actions are right if they promote pleasure, wrong if they promote pain [Mill]
5935 Mill's qualities of pleasure is an admission that there are other good states of mind than pleasure [Ross on Mill]
3766 Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied [Mill]
3769 With early training, any absurdity or evil may be given the power of conscience [Mill]
3768 Orthodox morality is the only one which feels obligatory [Mill]
3771 Virtues only have value because they achieve some further end [Mill]
3772 The will, in the beginning, is entirely produced by desire [Mill]
3770 General happiness is only desirable because individuals desire their own happiness [Mill]
3773 No individual has the right to receive our benevolence [Mill]
3775 A right is a valid claim to society's protection [Mill]
3776 Utilitarianism only works if everybody has a totally equal right to happiness [Mill]
3774 Rights are a matter of justice, not of benevolence [Mill]