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and John Stuart Mill. Mill says: “Happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure” (Utilitarianism, Mill). Furthermore, these basic principles of Utilitarianism are located under the Greatest Happiness Principle which states that actions are considered moral when they promote happiness and immoral when they promote

happiness is a desire, and happiness is the only thing desirable as an end (in of itself). All other things are desirable as a medium to acquire that final happiness. The main belief of utilitarianism is to maximize the good in the world, which is pleasure and happiness whilst minimizing the bad, which is pain and unhappiness. Both pieces “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K LeGuin and "The Experience Machine" by Robert Nozick provides arguments against utilitarianism.  “The Ones Who Walk

tend to pursue lower pleasures, sometimes even injuring themselves, even if they are aware that health is the greater good. In fact, Mill stated that lower pleasures are predominant because easier to achieve. For this reason, individuals succumb to temptations, even if the final pleasure is at a lower level than the higher pleasures, which of course, are harder to achieve. I agree with Mill’s claim, because individuals are prone to abandon the achievement of higher pleasure given the fact that they

Stuart Mill believes in a utilitarian form of happiness, since happiness is a pleasure it should be designed to be useful or practical for the mass majority. Physical forms of pleasure are inferior compared to intellectual and moral pleasures when associated with genuine happiness accorrding to John Stuart Mill. A contributing factor John Stuart Mill added towards Jeremy Bentham impression of happiness was that pleasures should be separated on a qualitative level. John Stuart Mill considered happiness

standardizing ethics holding that the best moral action is the one that maximizes utility. According to Mill, a lot of people misunderstand utilitarianism by thinking that utility is an obstruction to pleasure. Utility, also known as the Greatest Happiness Principle, is actually defined as pleasure itself, and the absence of pain. This principle is described as “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.” Mill develops

find out that “Bodily pleasure does not increase when the pain of want has been removed; after that it only admits of variation. The limit of mental pleasure, however, is reached when we reflect on these bodily pleasures and their related emotions, which used to cause the mind the greatest alarms.”Principal Doctrines. Epicurus. When one fulfill all the wants, one removed the pain of wanting things, but the bodily pleasure will reached its maximum potential while mental pleasure has a higher limit.

1. According to Mill, why are some pleasures more worthwhile than others? According to Mill, “what makes a pleasure more valuable than other merely as pleasure except its being greater in amount, there is but one possible answer. Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all or have experience of both give desired preference irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.” This means that it all comes down to the person’s preferences

some pleasures are higher than others? What would you consider higher and lower pleasures? Mental pleasures are intrinsically superior to physical pleasures, as well as circumstantially. The evidence Mill appeals to in support of his claim that there are different kinds of pleasures and that some are superior to others is the experience of mankind. Those who are acquainted with both sorts of pleasures do prefer the higher pleasures. (P.10) I can somewhat agree with Mills that some pleasures can be

This paper tries to make a contribution by addressing the subjective well-being to be a more comprehensive measure of quality of life rather than income. The SWL and its standard deviation make this comparison illuminating with a significant negative correlation shown by all the surveys used in the paper. As a result, it is expected that whatever negative linkage there may be between income inequality and life evaluations should be stronger for well-being inequality. this paper is providing three

different calculations. The first calculations that is use is pleasure minus pain. In order to figured it out, you would calculate how many people would receive pleasure from the information that was gather in the experiments and subtract the number of people who would experience pain from that information. If the number of people who experience pain from this information being used is greater from the number of people who would experience pleasure,