JS MILL IS CONCEPT OF HAPPINESS IS

THE FOUNDATION OF MORALITY

SUBMITTED TO: PROFF DR. KHADIM HUSSAIN

SUBMITTED BY: MUHAMMAD YAHYA BBA 5TH SEMESTER

 TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Introduction to JS Mill
• JS Mill’s View on Happiness
• The Foundation for Morality
• JS Mill’s Utilitarianism
• Morality and the Greatest Happiness
• Conclusion
 INTRODUCTION TO JS MILL

•John Stuart Mill (1806 -1873)

•Influenced the shape of nineteenth century British thought and political discourse.
•His substantial corpus of works includes texts in logic, epistemology, economics,
social and political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, religion, and current affairs.
•Most well-known and significant are A System of Logic, Principles of Political
Economy, On Liberty, Utilitarianism.
 JS MILL’S VIEW ON HAPPINESS
•we should aim to achieve is the happiness of everyone we should not give
any special preference to our own happiness of our families or friends
happiness everyone's happiness counts equally in Mills view the greatest
sum total of happiness is what we should always try to be maximizing
through our actions.
• Happiness is defined as PLEASURE and the absence of PAIN
 THE FOUNDATION FOR MORALITY

• The creed which accepts as the foundations of morals “utility” or

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. By happiness is intended
pleasure and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain and the
privation of pleasure. (II 2; also see II 1)
 MILL’S UTILITARIANISM
•Mills utilitarianism is a straightforward and simple theory with two main
elements utilitarianism is a theory both about what is of Ultimate Value or
Importance In Life and it provides a criteria for judging whether any action is
morally right or wrong according to mill happiness or pleasure is that which is
of highest support importance in life pleasure is what makes our lives valuable
mill believe that the reason why we choose anything is either because it is
pleasurable in itself or because it will lead to pleasure at some future time for
example you might choose you to painful shot now because you believe in the
future it will lead to more overall pleasure by sparing you from a disease.
 MORALITY AND THE GREATEST HAPPINESS
• By pleasure he doesn't just have in mind the physical pleasures which we experience
through our senses he also means to include intellectual and emotional pleasures such
as the intellectual, mill says that intellectual pleasures have higher quality or value than
sense pleasures given that pleasure is one of us is that which is of highest value in
human life actions should always be promoting the greatest possible happiness or
pleasure each individual action which we perform can be judged is morally right or
wrong like do not steal do not cheat do not lie do not murder intentionally harm people
in general these basic moral rules are guides to how we can maximize happiness
 CONCLUSION

• We use the term to express a variety of positive emotions,

including joy, pride, happiness, and thankfulness, and
most of us recognise it when we feel it. It captures
happiness's ephemeral pleasurable emotions, as well as a
deeper sense of meaning and purpose in life.