MILL II

I. Mill's goal:

A. (Normative) A criterion of moral right and wrong.

B. (Metaethical) A philosophical account of this criterion.

II. The criterion: Utilitarianism (version of Consequentialism)

III. The right and the (nonmoral) good

III Mill's theory of the good: a version of hedonism.

IV What is pleasure? Bentham’s view, and quantitative hedonism.

V. What about Mill?

VI. Virtue, desire, and happiness

VII. The ambiguity of ‘pleasure’ and the good. (PE) Experience machine

VIII. Qualitative hedonism