On John Stuart Mill’s Extended Utilitarianism (존 스튜어트 밀의 확장된 공리주의에 대한 고찰)

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doi:10.33639/ptc.2023..43.001

On John Stuart Mill’s Extended Utilitarianism

PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
2023, (43), pp.1~28
DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2023..43.001
Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities

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By rejecting the Benthamite overly simple representation of universal/immutable human nature and arguing for the complexity and diversity of what constitutes human happiness, J. S. Mill was able to render a form of utilitarian theory that extended the concept of happiness or utility to encompass the values that are commonly considered non-utilitarian. This form of theory at least has the strategic advantage of offering a more flexible foundation for responding to the major criticisms of utilitarianism than Bentham’s theory. However, it is certainly needed to clarify the grounds on which this extended theory can still be regarded as a utilitarian theory, and its strategic disadvantages should also be considered as much as its strategic advantages which might perhaps loosen it from the essence of utilitarianism and lose some of its original strengths. In this paper, I will look into the main features of Mill’s extended utilitarianism through the points at which his theory deviates from Bentham’s. Centering on his concept of ‘character’, I will examine the interconnections between his developmental or growthal understanding of human nature, extended notion of happiness or utility, and qualitative distinction of pleasures. Upon these considerations, I will briefly make some remarks on the extent to which Mill’s proposed form of utilitarianism can secure the characteristic features of classical utilitarianism, such as consequentialism and hedonism, the extent to which it can approach to the classical utilitarians’ common objective of the scientification of morality, and the extent to which its strategic advantages outweigh its disadvantages.

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Extended Utilitarianism, Consequentialism, Hedonism, Character, Moral Science

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