North Park University Ethics Utilitarianism Discussion

Question Description

I’m working on a humanities discussion question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

1. Watch this short video on utilitarianism (or consequentialism): Utilitarianism: Crash Course Philosophy #36 – YouTube

2. We will be focusing on Chapters 1 and 2 of Mill’s Utilitarianism. You may find a clean copy of the reading at these web links: 1. Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill and 2. Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill.

3. I have also scanned my copy of the reading with my notes. It is harder to read, but I thought it might be fun for you to see, and I will use it as a reference for my audio lecture: Mill (1).

4. Here is the link to my audio guide: Mill lecture

Utilitarianism is accused of promoting a life of pleasure that is immoral and reduces human beings to pigs (our lowest impulses). Mill counters that human beings who have experienced the ‘higher’ or more ‘elevated’ pleasures found in education, civic freedom, and compassion will choose these over ignorance, oppression, and cruelty. He does acknowledge that some people do find great pleasure in cruelty, for instance, but that this is only because they have not known the greater pleasure of kindness. Do you agree with Mill that 1) there are ‘higher’ pleasures and 2) that those who have experienced both (education and ignorance, freedom and oppression) prefer the ‘higher’?

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