criticisms of utilitarianism:
1) too permissive
2) too demanding
3) too difficult to calculate consequences
4) Their is more to life then plesure or happiness
example: Norzick's experience machine
mill's highest and lowest pleasures
higher pleasure is an intellectual cultural (mind,spirit) more valuable
lower pleasure is a physical, blue collar, sex, drinking.....INSTANT GRATIFICATION
5)crass hedonism - mill's highest and lower pleasure
6)how long do you have to wait until you know you have done right? (calculating consequences) Mill's reply is to wait long enough: short time for short things, longer for larger things.
Objections:
1)bourgeois -elistism, Mill is assuming these things are pleasurable.
2)trying to smuggle values other than pleasure into utilitarianism
Knowledge is a value and mill is trying to smuggle it as a pleasure
other examples: art, religion, freedom
"Brave New World" -mustapha Mond is representing utilitarianism
vs. the savage, who is non utilitarianism
Williams objection to Utilitarianism:
William believes that this makes people compromise their integrity
1) example, George was offered a job to participate in biowarfare job p.255
2)Jim and Pedro
kill one and nine live or ten die and Jim does not participate
Morality dant require us to participate in evil that good may become.
** TEST WILL NOT COVER DEONOTOLOGY **