Excerpts from Utilitarianism

Excerpts from Utilitarianism

Excerpts from Utilitarianism Question: Provide excerpt from the textThe creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or
the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in
proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to
produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended
pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the
privation of pleasure. To give a clear view of the moral standard
set up by the theory, much more requires to be said; in particular,
what things it includes in the ideas of pain and pleasure; and to
what extent this is left an open question. But these supplementary
explanations do not affect the theory of life on which this theory
of morality is grounded- namely, that pleasure, and freedom from
pain, are the only things desirable as ends; and that all desirable
things (which are as numerous in the utilitarian as in any other
scheme) are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in
themselves, or as means to the promotion of pleasure and the
prevention of pain.Now, such a theory of life…….

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