
Roger Crisp on Utilitarianism
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Utilitarianism - What Are the Main Lines of Criticism?
Mill published utilitarianism in 18 61, and obviously there has been quite a long history of reactions to his book. Could yo sum up the main lines of criticism that have been taken against mill's utilitarianism? Yes. Mill's headenism was attacked for being the philosophy of swine, as carlyle put it. And that tradition of criticism continued through bradley and gree and it continues to day. Ind the second line of objection to mill the second line has to do with the maximizing element. When you first think about the idea of utilitarianism, this idea that you should produce the greatest good for everybody, it sounds quite plausible but then it seems to have some very
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