Emphasizes the moral value of quantity of pleasure

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1. In John Stuart Mill's "Utilitarianism," he argues that actions are right to the extent that they promote happiness, wrong to the extent that they promote the reverse of happiness.

2. Mill's utilitarianism emphasizes the moral value of quantity of pleasure over quality.

3. When Mill writes "it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied," he means that it is better to pursue qualitatively superior pleasures even though doing so may make one liable to experience more acute suffering than if one merely devoted one's life to pursuit of the lower pleasures.

4. Mill admits that people sometimes come to voluntarily pursue the lower pleasures despite being acquainted with the higher pleasures.

5. Mill's "Greatest Happiness Principle" requires each individual to maximize their own happiness, primarily, since doing so will ensure that the happiness of everyone is increased.

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