Utilitarianism :: Philosophy essays

Utilitarianism This was written in responce to the following questions What is the principle of improvement? Do you regard it as an adequate to(predicate) basis for judging the rise of fellowship or the desirability of diametrical social institutions? What are its virtues and limitations? How would a utilitarian aproach to judging society disaccord from a more traditional moral approach? The principle of utility was Jeremy Benthams mentation on how society progresses through maintaining the greatest triumph / unsloped for the greatest number of people. The ideology utilitarianism, was later formed by sewer Mill who offered the phrase and an explanation with regards to its moral implications. It sounds logical for a society to want the greatest happiness or good for itself. In familiar we regard individuals who are well (cultured) and who do not do (bad things) to be happy and we respect them for it. However, that depends on what we see (cultured) and (bad things) to mean. We have already seen that the idea of what is morally correct and the notions of what is (more morally correct) are philosophical, sociological and theological problems that just about every philosopher has tried to answer and all come up with alter responses. Everyone sees murder as being wrong and as being an coif that could not bring happiness or good. However, this does not account for those who give care to kill. They are part of society, so does their happiness not matter? instantaneously if you had a population of murderers or even people who did not ineluctably kill provided liked seeing others kill/killed (maybe on TV or the movies), does their happiness still show a society of progress? I would hope not. To this Mill would say that I was probably right, but that people would not choose to live like that. Instead they would favour for a moral happiness. They would look for the (higher) levels of happiness like knowledge and culture. I would then reply that he has either left our human disposition or his timeline for people moving towards a (higher) level of happiness is insane. I do believe that utilitarianism is the means by which we live in public people do whatever they want as long as it brings them happiness (at least what they think is happiness). The fact is that we cannot truly equate happiness to being (good) so we cannot use it as means of judging progress.