Utilitarian Ethics by Anthony Quinton

By Anthony Quinton

"An admirably transparent and concise learn of Bentham, Mill, their predecessors, and their critics. Combining ancient illumination with tough-minded argument, it presents a good creation to the subject." – J.B. Schneewind, Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University

This is an unique experiment of Quinton's 1973 paintings. Few could have heard of it, however it is a precious complement to many unique texts of ethical Philosophy; fairly that of Mill. you can find this on interpreting lists of the main prestigious and rigorous Philosophy courses.

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Its first step is an affirmation of the principle of psychological hedonism: pleasure, or happiness, is the only thing that men desire for its own sake. The form in which this is put for the next stage of the argument is that each man (ultimately) desires nothing but his own pleasure. The second thesis may be called the principle of subjective ethical hedonism: each man's pleasure is a good to him. The connecting- link between this and the first principle is the claim that nothing can be desirable, or good, but what is actually desired.

It needs to be everyone' in a distributive sense, in which case it would be no other. shown that this natural extension, as I have called it, of the concept of the desirable is a legitimate manoeuvre and not the result of a failure to distinguish between the distributive and the collective ways of referring to people in general. In the third and final stage of his proof Mill attempts to do this by arguing that since, as he claims to have shown, each man's happiness is a good to him, the general happiness is a good to all, to 'the aggregate of all persons', and thus is good in itself and without qualification.

Now, considered in itself and without relation to other desires, the only feature of a desire which would expose it to criticism as regards its rationality is the necessarily implied belief that its object will, when achieved, yield satisfaction. One case, at any rate, in which a desire can be condemned as irrational is that in which the implied belief about the satisfyingness of its object is false. The obvious, paradigm instance of an irrational desire is one the achievement of whose object will prove dis¬ pleasing to the agent.

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