Review Questions:

1. State and explain the Principle of Utility. Show how it could be used to justify actions that are conventionally viewed as wrong, such as lying and stealing.

Great Hapiness Principle holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote hapiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of hapiness. Lying nd Stealing are wrong and it is in our religious beliefs that it is wrong, that's why it doesn't brig hapiness.

2. How does Mill reply to the objection that Epicureanism is a doctrine worthy only of a swine?

If the human and swines have the same sources of pleasure, then the rule is that whatever is good for one, is good enough for the other one.

3. How does Mill distinguish between higher and lower pleasures?

A being of higher faculties requires more to make him happy, is capable probably of more acute suffering, and certainly accessible to it at more point than one of an inferior type.

4. According to Mill, whose happiness must be considered?

Utilitarian standard is the greatest happiness of all.

5. Carefully reconstruct Mill’s proof of the Principle of Utility.

We only desire things that makes us happy. Therefore, happiness is the one thing that is desirable.

Discussion Questions:

1. Is happiness nothing more than pleasure, and absence of pain?

Yes, I agree .

2. Does Mill convince you that the higher pleasures are better than the lower ones? What about the person of experience who prefers the lower?

I think I am convinced. It really depends on the person.

3. Mill says "In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the complete spirit of ethics of utility." True or not?

Not true.

4. Many commentators have thought that Mill's proof of the principle of utility is defective. Agree?

I do not agree.