Kant

Kant Along with Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill developed the nineteenth century English philosophy known as Utilitarianism, which was the contention that man should judge everything in life based upon its ability to promote the greatest individual happiness (Titus and Smith 122). While Bentham is acknowledged as the philosophy’s founder, it was Johm Stuart Mill who further qualified it through logic (Titus and Smith 124). He maintained that because human beings are imbued with a thought capacity, they are not merely satisfied with pleasures of the flesh. They aspire to achieve pleasure of the mind as well. Once man has ascended to this highest intellectual level, he desires to stay there, never descending to the lowly level of existence from which he began (Titus and Smith 124). People like Thomas Carlyle have declared that man can live just as well without happiness. John Stuart Mill acknowledges that while this may be true in theory, that men do not conduct their lives in total pursuit of happiness, they still need a gauge with which to measure morality. Happiness may not necessarily mean continuous rapture, for such intense experiences are momentary at best. Nevertheless, happiness to some may merely translate to kant, happiness, pleasure, mill, pleasures, higher, people, utilitarianism, pain, one, different, it¸s, good, argument, theory, stuart, others, lower, life, greatest, bentham, action, two, therefore, society, quality, merely, man, john, individual, human, experience, desirable, calculus, bentham¸s, while, value