Analysis Of Utilitarianism

Utilitarianism

Utilitarianism is a standard, a means of identifying whether actions are good or bad depending on the end result. John Stuart Mill has a simple way of looking at how we try to attain happiness and limit pain, in his essay he breaks it up into multiple parts, like what makes an action good or bad, the Greatest Happiness Principle, the person’s mind as he weighs if the happiness is worth the pain, and why one happiness is prefered over the other. I believe that Utilitarianism is flawed, it is difficult to use in larger scales and even has hiccups on the personal level. The main focus of the Utilitarian standard is measuring the effect of an action, the way we measure this is the Greatest Happiness Principle. Which simply states if the happiness of the people immediately affected go up then the action is good and if the happiness levels go down than the action is bad. Furthermore I believe there must be further deliberation on the action and why that made it good or bad. For example if you were to finally clean the house after your mother had continuously asked

Moreover these morals the standards are set by are put into place in the upbringing of each individual this is important because The Greatest Happiness Principle is simple enough however the individual 's standards are what make Utilitarianism work, without people nothing can practice Utilitarianism because humans are the only creatures capable of thinking at a higher