Mill (1)

Question 1

What is the greatest happiness principle

Answer 1

• Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness
• By happiness is meant pleasure and unhappiness = lack of pleasure
• Great pleasure for the greatest number

Question 2

What is Impartiality

Answer 2

• Impartiality - Everyone counts for one and only one, is an example of this type of principle. No favouritism here!

Question 3

Higher vs Lower pleasures

Answer 3

• Bodily pleasures
• Intellectual pleasures

Question 4

Impartial Spectator

Answer 4

Mill suggests that we should think about moral dilemmas from this perspective; sometimes it takes on a sporting theme