The Greatest Happiness Principle holds that “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness” (365). Mill further explains the …show more content…
One reason is that his response offers a good explanation as to why there exist perfectly rational beings that would knowingly value lesser pleasures more than higher pleasures. His response gives utilitarianism a connection to how things really are, which some ethical theories fail to approach. We all seek happiness and our means to obtaining it depend on the resources available to us throughout our lives. To further support my meaning, if our parents have a higher education and experienced the pleasures promoted by learning, then they would want the same for us. They have access to these pleasures and teach us at an early age how to obtain and value these higher