Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Hermarchus, John Stuart Mill and David O. Brink

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23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism

3776	Utilitarianism only works if everybody has a totally equal right to happiness [Mill]

7214	Ethics rests on utility, which is the permanent progressive interests of people [Mill]

7202	The English believe in the task of annihilating evil for the victory of good [Nietzsche on Mill]

5935	Mill's qualities of pleasure is an admission that there are other good states of mind than pleasure [Ross on Mill]

3764	Actions are right if they promote pleasure, wrong if they promote pain [Mill]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 2. Ideal of Pleasure

3763	Ultimate goods such as pleasure can never be proved to be good [Mill]

3765	Only pleasure and freedom from pain are desirable as ends [Mill]

3766	Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied [Mill]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 3. Motivation for Altruism

3770	General happiness is only desirable because individuals desire their own happiness [Mill]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 5. Rule Utilitarianism

6697	Moral rules protecting human welfare are more vital than local maxims [Mill]