Mill wrote a famous essay called “Utilitarianism,” but he ended up not as a proselytiser on behalf of the utilitarian principle of “the greatest happiness of the greatest number” but as the most eloquent advocate of human freedom ever to write in the English language. Mill was a second...
act-utilitarianismutilitarianismBernard WilliamsIn this essay, I distinguish two significant act-utilitarian theories of moral education: the traditional rule of thumb view and the Harian intuition view. I argue that there are problems with the traditional view and that an act-utilitarian ought to ...
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2. The second reason people what is good is because of the long term benefit they of it (utilitarianism). We expect to be treated well so we treat other people well. Acting unethicallyis always a short term view. People who have short term perspective tend to act unethically. ...