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Critiquing and Defending Utili

 

When I first heard of these gentlemen with their ideas to promote the well-being of mainly happiness, I supported their views. It seems especially idealistic, but if they could find a way to make it work out alright, I almost could have been bought. John Stuart Mill believed that if we want to institute what happiness is, we must determine what people actually want, thus the part that appealed to me the most. Take for example how I cannot assume that I know what people want on the basis of some abstract picture of what is essentially required in order to be a fully human being. I do object to Mill in such a way that there are other things I"m sure most people desire besides happiness like love, power, duty, fame, integrity, and so on and so forth. John Stuart Mill accepts as truth that individuals" happiness is based on their achievements and desires. This can form happiness into a multifaceted phenomenon composed of many parts including love power, respect, and virtue.
             Two main subdivisions fall into place under the utilitarian theory. Both of which can be awfully extensive, but summed up rather well. The discovery of act utilitarianism and rules utilitarianism threw me off guard a bit. Act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism are the headlines of the two subdivisions of utilitarianism.
             Act utilitarianism defines the rightness and or wrongness of an action as consisting in the good or bad consequences brought about by that particular action. For this reason, act utilitarianism is sometimes called "direct utilitarianism", which I had recently discovered. That is, if the basic principle of utilitarianism is to maximize utility, then act utilitarianism is the view that this principle ought to be applied in each individual case. .
             The values of certain rules or acts in bringing about the greatest good for the greatest number of people can actually be measured in "happiness units." Jeremy Bentham was one such a person who believed in the measurement of a person's happiness.


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