Ideas from 'Utilitarianism' by John Stuart Mill [1861], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Utilitarianism (including On Liberty etc)' by Mill,John Stuart (ed/tr Warnock,Mary) [Fontana 1962,0-00-686022-2]].

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20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

3772	The will, in the beginning, is entirely produced by desire

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism

3769	With early training, any absurdity or evil may be given the power of conscience

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism

3767	Motive shows the worth of the agent, but not of the action

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / c. Motivation for virtue

3771	Virtues only have value because they achieve some further end

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty

3768	Orthodox morality is the only one which feels obligatory

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism

3764	Actions are right if they promote pleasure, wrong if they promote pain

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

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

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

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

3766	Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied

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

3765	Only pleasure and freedom from pain are desirable as ends

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

3770	General happiness is only desirable because individuals desire their own happiness

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

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

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 3. Natural Values / c. Natural rights

3774	Rights are a matter of justice, not of benevolence

3773	No individual has the right to receive our benevolence

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

3775	A right is a valid claim to society's protection