Mill advocates utilitarianism where he says the goal is to reach the greatest happiness and actions that oppose that end is wrong. Unlike, the medieval thinkers Mill see happiness as pleasure without pain and unhappiness as pain without pleasure. Mill’s moral framework is constructed by the notion that our desires are fueled towards our own happiness and if everyone lived in that way then it could achieve the highest principle of happiness for the general good. In addition, to that Mill says that our decisions should strive for the greater good of everybody and that our personal effects have no place in morality. Furthermore, the only tolerable sacrifice is for the sake of a greater happiness other than that Mill doesn’t believe in sacrifice itself. Mill sees that everybody might not agree with utilitarianism but if society was raised to believe that appeals to moral goodness then anybody against it would feel guilty for going against it. In detail, Mill sees that people can be swayed in terms of their beliefs seeing that society doesn’t want to suffer because it contradicts human
Mill advocates utilitarianism where he says the goal is to reach the greatest happiness and actions that oppose that end is wrong. Unlike, the medieval thinkers Mill see happiness as pleasure without pain and unhappiness as pain without pleasure. Mill’s moral framework is constructed by the notion that our desires are fueled towards our own happiness and if everyone lived in that way then it could achieve the highest principle of happiness for the general good. In addition, to that Mill says that our decisions should strive for the greater good of everybody and that our personal effects have no place in morality. Furthermore, the only tolerable sacrifice is for the sake of a greater happiness other than that Mill doesn’t believe in sacrifice itself. Mill sees that everybody might not agree with utilitarianism but if society was raised to believe that appeals to moral goodness then anybody against it would feel guilty for going against it. In detail, Mill sees that people can be swayed in terms of their beliefs seeing that society doesn’t want to suffer because it contradicts human