John Stuart Mill | Utilitarianism
Mill criticizes existing ethical theories based on abstract principles that fail to apply directly to human action and its consequences. He builds on earlier conceptions of utilitarianism from Epicurus to Bentham by distinguishing between different qualities of human pleasure, which include both the intellectual and the sensual (the higher and lower pleasures).
-When utility is accepted as the foundation of morals, actions are right that promote happiness and wrong that produce
A) power.
B) pleasure.
C) humility.
D) pain.

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Mill argues that actions are right if they promote happiness and wrong if they produce pain, aligning with the utilitarian principle of maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain.