Thursday, October 9, 2014
Who John Stuart Mills was
John Stuart Mills was a lab rat for his father. His father, John Mills, and his school mate, Jeremy Bentham, developed a complex educational system. John Stuart Mills be some one of the most intelligent children you would've every met. But because of what they had done to him, he received a mental and nervous breakdown at the age of 21. But he still became the author of the book Utilitarianism. He came up with the idea that based on maximizing utility, you are able to produce the greatest amount of pleasure (or happiness) or the greatest amount of pain for the greatest amount of people. But after he died, people divided utilitarianism into two schools: Rules of Utilitarianism and Acts of Utilitarianism. Rules of Utilitarianism is when an action is right as it conforms to a rule that leads to the greatest good. The Acts of Utilitarianism is a theory of ethnics which states that a person's act is morally right if and only if it produces at least as much happiness as any other act that the person could perform at this time. That is all I have to say about John Stuart Mills.
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