His rigorous education led to his completing the reading for a demanding classics degree by the age of 10, and by the age of 12 he could read Aristotle in the original Greek. His father was a follower of Bentham and aimed to create a genius that would carry on the cause of utilitarianism and after Bentham had died.
He was given an extremely rigorous upbringing, and was deliberately shielded from other children his own age other than his siblings. Mill was a pupil of Jeremy Bentham and they both wanted the same reforms. He is associated with the type of Utilitarianism called Rule Utilitarianism. John Stuart Mill is another big figure in Utilitarianism. Rumors have suggested that his body is wheeled out during important meetings and sat at the head of the table. His body was preserved and is still currently on display at the University College London which is a university he had a hand in founding.
He had continued to write up to a month before his death, and made careful instructions for what should happen to his body after he died. When we promote pain we cause unhappiness and so any such action is bad.īentham died on 6 June 1832 aged 84 at his residence in Queen Square Place in Westminster, London. When we promote pleasure we are doing good. So, the good thing to do is always to create pleasure/ happiness. When we are experiencing pain we are unhappy. When we are experiencing pleasure we are by definition happy. Happiness is to be found in the promotion of pleasure and the avoidance of pain. This is the same as saying, it is obvious to us. we just instinctively know it, without even thinking about it. Utilitarian’s claim that what everyone wants is to be happy. Derren Brown wrote a book all about the concept of happiness and how we approach it. There are millions of pounds spend on self help guides to encourage people to be happy. There are so many definitions about what happiness is and how we feel happy. The Equity Principle – No ones happiness is more important than anyone else’s.The Hedonic Principle – The only consequences that matters is happiness.The Consequentialist Principle – The consequences of an action are all that matters when deciding if it is good or not.The Greatest Happiness Principle or GHP for short is made up of three components. So an action which produces a lot of happiness is more morally right than one which produces sadness. It states that the moral worth of an action is based on how much happiness it produces. The greatest happiness principle is the main principle of Utilitarianism. Where there is a moral choice do that which results in ‘the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.’ Preference Utilitarianism Theory takes into account the preferences of those involved in a particular course of action. Rule Utilitarianism Theory takes into account the results of obeying general rules of conduct. Act UtilitarianismTheory is applied to the results of individual actions
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