The Principle of Utility
Utilitarianism in a Nutshell.
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I go on Quora as much as I can, usually in search of questions that need answering and that I can provide some sort of answer to. It’s not a claim that I know everything or that I am well versed in virtually every subject out there.
This is just an attempt to make sense of the world — more for myself than for anyone else. So, on one such journey through the InterWebs, this is what I found. The request from the individual was:
Evaluate the philosophical thought of two utilitarian models, Bentham and Mill, “Pleasure is what is moral and ethical. does pleasure here mean self gratification?
The principle of utility means that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness”.
According to British Philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, this is utility in a nutshell. If you understood nothing of what is up there, I’ll explain in a moment. What Bentham…
