1. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) An Introduction to Mill ’s form of Utilitarianism in comparison to Bentham’s

3. PLEASURE All types of pleasure and pain can be measured on the same scale Pleasures can be compared quantitatively because there is no difference between them What is good and bad for each person is a matter for each person to decide by following the hedonic (felicific) calculus Bentham once said that “quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin (a simple child’s game) is as good as poetry.”

4. The Hedonic Calculus The Hedonic Calculus is: Democratic Egalitarian (classless) “ Everybody is to count for one, and nobody for more than one.” In keeping with the enlightenment thinking the Hedonic Calculus was a rational and scientific way to measure pleasure. Bentham claimed that goodness could be empirically (through experience) proven. “ No one person’s pleasure is greater than another’s”