Happiness is pleasure and the absence of pain versus unhappiness which is pain and the absences of pleasure. Mill thinks pleasures and happiness are the same. If something brings you pleasure, then you are happy. Just as if you are happy something has brought you pleasure. Take for example food, it is only desired to stop and/or prevent hunger which brings happiness to the person starving. Together the theory of value and consequentialism make the principle of theory. This says “pleasure and freedom from pain are the only the only things desirable as ends” -that is they are the only intrinsic goods. Intrinsic goods are thought to be sought for its own sake not for the sake of what it leads to. Mill argues pleasure and pain are the only thing worth seeking for their own sake. Anything else worth seeking is only worth seeking because it leads to pleasure and/or freedom from
Happiness is pleasure and the absence of pain versus unhappiness which is pain and the absences of pleasure. Mill thinks pleasures and happiness are the same. If something brings you pleasure, then you are happy. Just as if you are happy something has brought you pleasure. Take for example food, it is only desired to stop and/or prevent hunger which brings happiness to the person starving. Together the theory of value and consequentialism make the principle of theory. This says “pleasure and freedom from pain are the only the only things desirable as ends” -that is they are the only intrinsic goods. Intrinsic goods are thought to be sought for its own sake not for the sake of what it leads to. Mill argues pleasure and pain are the only thing worth seeking for their own sake. Anything else worth seeking is only worth seeking because it leads to pleasure and/or freedom from