1. Jake, Maria, Stuart & Tommy
John Stuart Mill
Jake, Maria, Stuart & Tommy

2. Life History Born May 20th, 1806 in London
Father, James, was a economist, philosopher, and historian
John was home schooled by his father
        -Very intense schooling
        -Father's goal was to make a genius
At age 13 he started studying Smith and Ricardo
        -Completed some of their work

3. History continued... Around age twenty he started having mental issues
Refused to study at Oxford and Cambridge
Followed his father's footsteps into work at East Indian Company
Married Harriet Taylor in 1851
He was Lord Rector at University of St. Andrews and served on Parliament in Westminster
Died in France on May 8th, 1873 at age 66. 

4. Influences on Work His Father, James Mill -Biggest influence
His Father, James Mill
        -Biggest influence
        -Utilitarianism 
Jeremy Bentham
        -Utilitarianism
        
Aristotle & Socrates
        -Early years of schooling
        

5. Influences continued... David Ricardo -Family friend
        -Political economy
Harriet Taylor, Wife
        -The Subjection of Women
        -On Liberty
        -Human Rights
Samuel Bentham (Jeremy's Brother)
        -Lived with for a year in France
        -Math and Sciences

6. Early Works
John Stuart Mill had many early works prior to his paper on Utilitarianism.
They include among others:
Views On Liberty 
 Freedom of Speech 
 Human Rights and Slavery
 Feminism

7. On Liberty
Individual should be able to do as he pleases unless he harms others. 
 Government should only interfere when it is for the protection of the society
"The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others."

8. without allowing them to hear what can be said on the contrary side
Freedom of Speech
without allowing them to hear what can be said on the contrary side
Argued for Freedom of Speech based on political grounds saying that it is a critical component for a representative government to have in order to empower debate over public policy
 Personal growth and self realization
 Without being able to speak freely, how are we to know what a person can accomplish?

9. Human Rights/Feminism
Responded to Thomas Carlyle's paper about genetic inferiority, in which he stated that there was in fact no genetic inferiority and that all men we capable of doing great things. 
 In "The Subjection of Women," Mill argues for perfect equality. 
Mill believed that female roles were misconstrued in the days society. 
3 Major Reasons for the Subjection of Women
Society and gender construction
Education 
Marriage

10. UTILITARIANISM

11. UTILITARIANISM (1863) Chapter One: General Remarks
Ongoing conflict of determining right and wrong
Morals vs Legislation
Problems with science: do not prove the "good" & leave out morals
Science of Morals 
Principle Law at Root of all Morality: decides for various conflicting principles
Great Happiness Principle
Universal Principle & the origin and ground of moral obligation: "So act, that the rule on which thou actest would admit of being adopted as a law by all rational beings"

12. Chapter Two: What Utilitarianism Is
FOUNDATION 
"Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, and wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness"
pain vs pleasure
life has no higher end than pleasure, different kinds of pleasure being more desirable than others based on quantity and quality
Dignity Factor: "Better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied"
Expectations vs Accessibility
Directive Rule of Human Conduct: "greatest amount of happiness all together"
one may be happier than another but acceptable as long as rest of world gains

13. Great Happiness Principle
"The ultimate end"; "is an existence exempt as far as possible from pain, and as rich as possible in enjoyments, both in point of quantity and quality; the test of quality, and the rule for measuring it against quantity, being the preference felt by those who in their opportunities of experience, to which must be added their habits of self-consciousness and self-observation, are best furnished with the means of comparison." 
the end of human action
standard of morality
the rules and precepts for human conduct
Need to:
Balance 
Sacrifice own happiness for someone elses: "highest virtue which can be found in a man"
Object of Virtue: multiplication of happiness

14. Chapter Three: Of the Ultimate Sanction of the Principle of Utility
How do we get people to behave in a proper way and to honor utilitarianism?
Sanctions
Internal vs. External
Duty
Ultimate Sanction: in the conscience and feeling in mind
Nature & Equality among population
Opposition to Government, Politics, and Religion
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15. Chapter Four: Of What Sort of Proof the Principle of Utility is Susceptible
"Sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable...that people actually desire it." 
Happiness is a good: that each person's happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons. 
People vary in other desires, but happiness is universal

16. Parts of Happiness Habits Money
"Moving forces of human life, desire to possess it is stronger than desire to use it"
Principle ingredient of individual's consumption of happiness
Virtue
Want people to desire virtue
Habits
In feeling and in conduct, habit gets in the way of doing good
we rely on ourselves and each other, "habitual independence"

17. Chapter Five: On the Connection between Justice and Utility
Right and Wrong
Unjust: Depriving someone of the things they are allowed to by legal right
Receive good for doing good 
In all languages, the word justice deals with the law, or conforming to the law, or a legal constraint, yet the "notion of justice varies in all different persons, and always conforms in its variations to their notion of utility"

18. Law "Valid claim on society to protect him in the possession of it"
Do not restrict ones legal rights, but moral rights, thus no piece of justice can be carried out without trampling another         9\
Government contradicts equality

19. Unjust Actions A wrong done
An assignable person performing a wrong done
An individual being harmed
When are we legally constrained? When are we punished? What is the proper punishment? How is that determined?
Law, our conscience & duty, or by others
Punishment:
Should be proportional to the offense

20. Adaptations of Utilitarianism
Prioritarianism 
Not to Maximize happiness, but to Minimize Pain
Not simply overall well-being
Compassion – Help out worse off individuals
Many people with average lives is better than a large deviation of well-being amongst people
Situation A:    Jim: 110               Jane: -70
Situation B:    Jim: 20                 Jane: 15

21. Repugnant Conclusion AKA Mere Addition Paradox
As a population grows, the Wellbeing will decrease.. But there are more happy people
Population Ethics
Basically we need to acknowledge the fact that simply maximizing the utility is not the only important factor. Morality of growth of the population and a sense of duty to have children must be taken into account. 
Challenge of Modern ethics

23. What have we learned John Stuart Mill
British born Son to Economist/Philosopher
Unique upbringing
Many influences growing up such as:
Jeremy Bentham, David Ricardo, Aristotle, His family (Wife, brother and father)
Had mental issues in his 20’s, died at the age of 66

24. Impacts on the world Early Works: Liberty Freedom of speech
Human Rights
Feminism
Also: Limiting power of government, social liberty

25. Utilitarianism Conflict of Determining right and wrong The foundation
Great Happiness Principle
How to regulate and guide this idea
Explain why happiness is so crucial
Decisions about punishment and praise

26. Conclusion

27. The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy. "John Stuart Mill." Utilitarianism : Past, Present and Future. BLTC Research. Web. 11 Feb <
Econlib. "John Stuart Mill: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics." Library of Economics and Liberty. Liberty Fund, Inc., Web. 11 Feb <
Mill, John Stuart. "Utilitarianism." Utilitarianism : Past, Present and Future. BLTC. Web. 24 Feb <