Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

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Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
The key intention of Mill is to purposely introduce his ethical philosophy; utilitarianism and respond to immediate criticism he depicts by himself. He also supports his arguments from the "fathers" of philosophy like Kant, Smith, and Aristotle's concepts and virtues in he think some of the concepts his utilitarianism argues even better. Most of the concepts he argues are based on ethical values. Ethics is an important virtue in society which he argues that most of the philosophers built on their concepts. When the term ethics is mentioned, then the idea of moral surfaces. Mill avoids discussing more moral values as he thinks everyone including the philosophers and the layman both wants what is right which he bases his concept from the start. This now opens the argument and analysis of this essay on how to judge people, whether they are immoral, evil, bad, or what generally immoral theory tells us (option 1).
Boccalatte (p20) argues that even though Mill introduces the fundamental doctrine of utilitarianism by discussing that utilitarian wants to maximize utilities, he implies that when utilitarians maximize their utilities, then they have happiness in their events of life. Bocalatte (p22) continues to argue that in addition to people being happier, then they need to maximize what is morally right if they indeed want to promote happiness and they will reverse happiness if they do what is wrong as discussed during class lecture on Mill . Therefore, their arguments intend to explain that generally, people should not be too focused to pursue physical pleasures but instead refined pleasures on the intellects is much better.
This can be seen in his statement when he says “It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question" (Mill, p26). It means to make the earth a satisfying place does not mean people have to be physically satisfied, but should be intellectually happy, This is because the concept of utilitarianism peruses the idea of happiness, not satisfaction and being physically satisfied does not distinguish whether right or wrong has been done, in fact, revenge brings satisfaction which is morally evil. This is contrary to the assumptions from Utilitarianism critics who see happiness as the satisfaction of the world but mill sees happiness as continuous pleasurable excitement throughout people's lives. For the people to accomplish this, then they need to maximally utilize their morality and avoiding wrong or evil.
Lu on his comparative analysis of utilitarian theory, also agrees with the statement that self-sacrifice is important for perusing one's happiness as highlighted by Mill. Although he agrees to this concept, he adds that sacrifice also adds to the quantity of happiness an individual gets from it. If not then there is no need to sacrifice as people will directly go for sources of happiness. This view is right as people do self-sacrifice in order to work on their life goals to make them happy. People with goals are motivated with the happiness that is towards meeting those goals which makes them work hard to meet (Lu, p33). Other critics argue that the sacrifice action might affect everyone else around and Mill agrees by saying that this can only apply to people who are doing good to society and people around them.
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