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Mills Essay, Research Paper

Question 1

Mills states that it “… is not the agent’s own greatest happiness, but the greatest amount

of happiness altogether…”. This leaves no room for opinion because then the greater

number would not be contemplated. So who does Mills leave to decide to whom may

plan what the greater happiness is? It would be left up to people with lots of knowledge

and wisdom. Mills thinks that the so-called experts would be able to decide the greatest

happiness. But must be ” strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator “.

At some point his idea makes sense. To live in a strict utilitarian society you would need

someone to decide what the greater good would be for all. I would to some extent agree

with him on that point. But the truth is we don’t live in a utilitarian society. Well, I like

making my own decisions and deciding what will make me happy who cares if everyone

else is happy if it’s going to keep me from being my own person.

I think Rachel’s article brings up good point on how Utilitarianism can and can’t

work. He agrees with it in general with the basic principals in theory for example that

consequences are what matter most. He also gives his reasons on why not to trust our

common sense. Rachel believes the (act) utilitarianism is legitimate because it focuses on

the consequences of the individual acts to deem what is right and wrong. For this Rachel

has pointed out that this proves that common sense is not to be trusted. According to

Rachel, common sense includes prejudices that we have brought to the situation. If pure

utilitarianism is applied, there is no room for the prejudices to corrupt our thoughts and

our decisions will be based on only the consequences.

This idea had a lot of validity to it, but I don’t know how practical it is. To ignore what

your common sense tells you to do or at least to put it aside while making the decision

would be a hard thing to do. I don’t think a whole lot of people would be willing to

actually do this. I know for but me it would be very hard to do. I’m not sure I would want

to. But then again to look in on a perfect world and see I would have to agree it could

possibly produce many favorable outcomes.

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