INTRODUCTORY ETHICS

MILL'S UTILITARANISM

1. THE QUESTION OF ETHICS

2. THE PRINCIPLE OF UTILITARIANISM

3. BENTHAM'S VERSION

A. HEDONISM

B. SOCIAL COMPONENT

C. QUANTITY OF PLEASURE/HAPPINESS

4. MILL

A. QUALITY OF PLEASURE/HAPPINESS

B. "COMPETENT JUDGES"

C. KANT--CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE

5. UTILITARIANISM

A. CHAPTER 1--GENERAL REMARKS

I. LACK OF PROGRESS ON CRITERION OF RIGHT & WRONG-- SUMMUM BONUM

II. NOT INSTINCT OR INTUITION

III. GREATEST HAPPINESS PRINCIPLE--GHP--IS STANDARD

IV. KANT

V. NOTION OF PROOF

i. DIRECT--ABSOLUTE

ii. INDIRECT--GIVING RATIONAL SUPPORT

B. CHAPTER 2--WHAT UTILITARIANISM IS

I. WHAT IT IS NOT

II. GHP--PLEASURE & PAIN

III. QUANTITY VS. QUALITY

IV. "COMPETENT JUDGES"--KNOW BOTH

V. PIG VS. SOCRATES

VI. OBJECTIONS TO UTILITARIANISM

VII. SOCIAL COMPONENT OF VIEW

6. ACT & RULE UTILITARIANISM