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) .
-Mill criticizes a priori, or theoretically deducible, moral principles on the grounds that they do not apply to empirically observable ___________ of actions.

• A) laws
• B) axioms
• C) consequences
• D) duties

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Definitions:

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