Mill II

I Mill’s project

A. (Normative) Utilitarianism as the fundamental principle (“criterion” or “ultimate standard”) of moral right/wrong

B. (Metaethical)

i. Epistemological: empiricist, inductivist

ii. Metaphysical: naturalist (like psychology)

II. The “criterion”: Utilitarianism

III Mill’s theory of the good: (some version of) hedonism. But what is pleasure?

IV Bentham’s view of pleasure: quantitative hedonism

V Mill’s view of pleasure?

VI        Mill's "proof"