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e 'Greatest Happiness Principle', holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure" (Mill, 7). Like a true philosopher, Mill proposes objections to the utilitarian principle, which he then attempts to refute. Pleasure, according to Mill, has rather arrogantly been regarded as being little more than attempting to keep a pig satisfied. Because man has the intellectual capacity for reason, he should aspire for something more. Mill argues that is exactly what man does. He does not merely attempt to seek momentary pleasure, but in utilitarianism, has the option to choose that which provides him with the most pleasure. According to Mill, "Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral !
obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure"
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- Mill contends that "pleasure, and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends" ...
- Mill noted, "utility includes not solely the pursuit of happiness, but the prevention or mitigation of unhappiness" ...
- Mill countered this by pointing out, "The utilitarian morality does recognize in human beings the power of sacrificing their own greatest good for the good of others" ...
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