John Stuart Mill | Utilitarianism

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John Stuart Mill | Utilitarianism
Mill criticizes existing ethical theories based on abstract principles that fail to apply directly to human action and its consequences. He builds on earlier conceptions of utilitarianism from Epicurus to Bentham by distinguishing between different qualities of human pleasure, which include both the intellectual and the sensual (the higher and lower pleasures) .
-Philosophies promoting happiness, from Epicurus to Bentham, have been criticized for degrading human nature to the level of

• A) children.
• B) demons.
• C) swine.
• D) goats.

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