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How happiness became ethics.

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

What do people want?

What's the point of life?

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Eudaimonia

Literally, a 'good spirit'

To Flourish!

Happiness
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Pleasure

Act to produce the most
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Maximize Happiness

Minimize pain and suffering
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Happiness beyond the self . .

Society as a whole

Achieve the greatest happiness for
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Utilitarian ethics

The greatest good for the greatest number
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John Stuart Mill

1806 - 1873

"Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness."

Further Reading

  • J. S. Mill, Utilitarianism
  • J. S. Mill, On Liberty
  • J.S. Mill, The Subjection of Women

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