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utilitarianism, by mill

According to John Stuart Mill, Utilitarism has one end and that end is happiness, or at least, diminuishing the suffering. Mill explains that the theory of utility is not something to be contradistinguished from pleasure but that it is pleasure itself, together with the exemption from pain. There is a distinctive creed in the theory of Utility called the Greatest Happiness Principle that holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of hapiness. When Mill talks about happiness he means pleasure and the absence of pain. By unhappiness he means pain and the privation of pleasure.
In Utillitarianism by John Stuart Mill we can recognise that the pleasures that conform happiness are classified in different categories. Some kinds of pleasure are more desirable and more valuable than others. Mill expresses that for this classification what should be taken more into consideration is quality and not quantity. Mill holds...

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