Routledge - Philosophy Guidebook To Mill On Utilitarianism.pdf

Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Mill on Utilitarianism
Contents
Acknowledgements x
A note on texts and references xii
1 A teacher in an age of transition 1
Mill's life 1
The development of Mill's ethics 7
Interpreting Mill 13
2 Welfare and pleasure 19
Welfare and ethics 19
Bentham's account 20
Haydn and the oyster 23
Mill's hedonism 25
Taking the higher ground 28
An alleged dilemma 31
petent judges 35
3 Experience, desire and the ideal 45
Veridical and non-veridical experience 45
Mill's account and the value of authenticity 47
Beyond experience 49
Desire accounts 52
Desire and reason 55
The ideal 58
Authoritarianism, awareness, pluralism and plants 62
4 The proof and sanctions of utilitarianism 67
Moral theory and methodology 67
Stage 1: 'visible' and 'desirable' 72
Stage 2: from the happiness of each to the happiness
of all 77
Stage 3: nothing other than happiness is desirable 83
Psychology and ethics 88
Sanctions 90
5 What utilitarianism is 95
Rightness and focus 95
Actualism and probabilism 99
Acts and rules 102
Levels of moral thinking 105
Demandingness and rule-worship 112
Split psyches and different discourses 119
Supererogation 125
Punishment and the origin of moral language 126
6 Integrity 135
Integrity and the separateness of persons 135
Moral agency and responsibility 137
The self and motivation 142
Alienation and demandingness 143
Moral emotions 149
7 Justice 155
Justice 155
Mill's debunking argument 156
Duties, rights and obligations 162
Retaliation, fairness and desert 167
8 Utilitarianism and freedom: On Liberty 173
Utilitarianism and liberalism 173
The enslavement of the soul 176
Harm to others 179
Offence and slavery 182
Folly and depravation of taste 186
Freedom of expression 189
The value of truth 191
Individuality 195
9 Utilitarianism and equality: The Subjection of Women 201
Unmasking the morality of marital slavery 201
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