What is Mill's response to the objection that many who have experienced both higher and lower pleasures still prefer the lower pleasures?
Some people only have access to lower pleasures?
100
How does Mill define happiness?
What is pleasure and the absence of pain?
100
What type of Utilitarian was Jeremy Bentham?
What is an act utilitarian?
100
What type of Utilitarian was John Stuart Mill?
What is a weak rule utilitarian?
100
How does Mill define lower pleasures?
What are pleasures of the body or mere sensation?
200
What is Mill's response to the objection that happiness is unattainable?
Utilitarians define happiness as moments of pleasure rather than continuous pleasure.
200
How does Mill define unhappiness?
What is pain and the privation of pleasure?
200
What type of pleasure did Jeremy Bentham believe was most valuable?
What is all pleasures are equally valuable?
200
What type of pleasure did John Stuart Mill believe was most valuable?
What is higher pleasure?
200
How does Mill define higher pleasures?
What are pleasures of the intellect?
300
What is Mill's response to the objection that it is impossible to become noble without renouncing pleasure or happiness?
Sacrifice is good insofar as it increases the total sum of happiness
300
According to Mill, actions are right in proportion as they tend to produce what?
What is happiness?
300
How did Bentham determine what is a morally correct action?
What is based on a hedonistic calculus?
300
How does one determine what is a morally correct action, according to Mill?
According to Mill, an action is right or wrong depending on whether it follows a rule that is designed to produce the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
300
What sort of pleasure is eating pizza, according to Mill?
What is lower pleasure?
400
What is an example of an activity that requires renouncing pleasure to achieve another goal?
What is training for a marathon, studying for a test, etc?
400
According to Mill, actions are wrong as they tend to produce what?
What is the reverse of happiness?
400
What are the criteria that Bentham's hedonistic calculus is based on?
What is intensity, duration, certainty, propinquity, fecundity, purity and extent?
400
Does Mill allow exceptions to the rule when considering what is a morally correct action?
Yes, exceptions are allowed depending on the situation.
400
What sort of pleasure do the majority of people prefer, according to Mill?
What is a higher pleasure?
500
What is the main Kantian objection to Utilitarianism?
That it ignores the motives of the agent.
500
Whose happiness is it which forms the utilitarian standard of what is right in conduct?
the happiness of all that is concerned.
500
What is the main objection to the Hedonic/utility calculus?
How is it possible to give a measurement of the criteria?
500
Did Mill believe it was necessary to have a justice system in order to achieve happiness?
Yes because justice maximizes social utility.
500
How does Mill test for the quality of pleasure or measure it against quantity?
What is look to the preferences of the majority of those who are self-aware and have experience of both higher and lower pleasures?