MILLS THEORY OF UTILITARIANISM

MILLS THEORY OF UTILITARIANISM AND HOW IT EFFECTS LIVING A DECENT OR JUST LIFE When faced with a moral dilemma, utilitarianism identifies the appropriate considerations, but offers no realistic way to gather the necessary information to make the required calculations. This lack of information is a problem both in evaluating the welfare issues and in evaluating the consequentialist issues which utilitarianism requires be weighed when making moral decisions. Utilitarianism attempts to solve both of these …

…not help in making the moral decision. The information necessary to calculate all of the considerations identified by Mill's utilitarianism is not available. Furthermore, what is required is a method of comparing and weighing the considerations, and this method is not defined by utilitarianism. In the end, the decision-maker is still left to make the decision based on internal moral feelings of what is right and what is wrong which do not come from utilitarianism.