The Quality Of Happiness In The Utility Principle

Question 1

Mill was Bentham’s ? and he followed Utilitarianism.

Answer 1

Pupil.

Question 2

Mill investigates pleasures and pains ? that many would be disgusted at the suggestion that morality was about base ?

Answer 2

Noting.

Pleasures.

Question 3

Mill says higher pleasures are better than ? pleasures.

Answer 3

Base.

Question 4

The ? principle needed to distinguish between ? of sensual goods and happiness, and more important quality goods and pleasures. The quality of pleasure should be ?

Answer 4

Utility.
Quantities.
Calculated.

Question 5

Mill distinguished the ? pleasures (drinking) from the higher ? (intellectual), saying the lower pleasures provide powerful ? but if we overindulge, they bring ?

Answer 5

Lower.
Pleasures.
Gratification.
Pain.

Question 6

Mill distinguished the higher from the lower by claiming a person would always ? the higher over the lower. Higher ? are superior to lower pleasures.

Answer 6

Value.

Pleasures.

Question 7

For Mill, ? ? recognises, in human beings, the possibility that we can act for the ? of others.

Answer 7

Utilitarian morality.

Good.

Question 8

Telling the truth, for example, might seem to be something we should do for everyone’s ?, but a person trying to keep a secret or hide a crime, might think differently.

Answer 8

Happiness.