According to Sandel, Mill tried to extend utilitarianism a generation later than Bentham. Mills wanted to make it more humane. Mills responded to both of the objections in Bentham’s utilitarianism theory. His writings aimed at joining individual rights with the utilitarian theory of greatest happiness. His book, On Liberty, valued the importance of freedom as long it as causes no harm to others. Bentham wanted to maximize utility or happiness in every situation but Mills thinks we should maximize utility in the long run. It will cause greater happiness in the future if we respect each other’s rights.
Mill’s wrote a long essay called, Utilitarianism, which showed there is way to distinguish higher pleasures from lower ones. Bentham recognized no difference between the quality of higher …show more content…
52)”.Mills on the other hand could distinguish between higher and lower pleasures. What made higher pleasures different from lower pleasures was the intensity and duration of the pleasure or pain it caused. The higher pleasures are the ones that caused stronger and longer pleasure. Since Bentham can not distinguish between higher and lower pleasures he believes that all preferences count equally and could be measured and compared on a single scale. It does not make sense to compare pleasures on a single scale if have different qualities. The example in the book talks about the Puritans and how they banned bearbaiting. It was banned because it caused too much pleasure to the onlookers. There are two reasons why it should be banned. One reason is because of the cruelty to animals and the other reason is that is wrong to get pleasure from pain. Any cruelty should be discouraged in any society. Bentham believes that you can determine what the law should be by counting everyone’s preferences regardless of their worth. There were two questions that arose from this. One question talked about how if more people wanted to watch
Mill’s wrote a long essay called, Utilitarianism, which showed there is way to distinguish higher pleasures from lower ones. Bentham recognized no difference between the quality of higher …show more content…
52)”.Mills on the other hand could distinguish between higher and lower pleasures. What made higher pleasures different from lower pleasures was the intensity and duration of the pleasure or pain it caused. The higher pleasures are the ones that caused stronger and longer pleasure. Since Bentham can not distinguish between higher and lower pleasures he believes that all preferences count equally and could be measured and compared on a single scale. It does not make sense to compare pleasures on a single scale if have different qualities. The example in the book talks about the Puritans and how they banned bearbaiting. It was banned because it caused too much pleasure to the onlookers. There are two reasons why it should be banned. One reason is because of the cruelty to animals and the other reason is that is wrong to get pleasure from pain. Any cruelty should be discouraged in any society. Bentham believes that you can determine what the law should be by counting everyone’s preferences regardless of their worth. There were two questions that arose from this. One question talked about how if more people wanted to watch