Mill\'s Principle of Utility Please work with your classmates to construct a hig
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Question
Mill's Principle of Utility Please work with your classmates to construct a high-quality, extended academic discussion of the following questions. As always in our class, please work together to clarify concepts, explore questions, and analyze specific passages from our excerpt of Mill's Utilitarianism. •What, according to Mill, is greatest happiness principle? Exactly how does he think that principle can be used to determine whether a proposed course of action would be the right or the wrong thing to do? •How easy or hard is to to apply the utilitarian "hedonistic calculus"? Does performing these calculations require us to know exactly what will happen in the future? If not, how can we be confident that we understand what the consequences of a proposed action will be?
Explanation / Answer
The actual Meaning of American English and use of British English can look the same but of different meanings.For Mill, "utility" means "usefulness" as if you had a "utility room" or "utility closet" in your home, business, or place where you stored your "useful" things like mops etc. So, when Mill talks about the Principle of Utility, it exactly read as the "Principle of Usefulness." The most "useful" ethical decision is the one results in the great happiness for the majority of the people. In Bentham's Hedonic Calculus, the Calculus in which a sort of "costs and benefits" analysis for ethical decision-making for considering the action and produce the useful results for most people those affected by that decision so it make them happie