Some pleasures are of a higher quality than others; e.g., the pleasure of reading Shakespeare is a higher pleasure than the pleasure of drinking cheap booze.
All value is reducible to the positive balance of pleasure produced by actions.
The good of pleasure can always be trumped by an individual's rights.
Only the intention of an agent matters when evaluating the morality of an act.
Mill holds that virtue...
is not good at all.
is always in conflict with the promotion of pleasure.
is a lower quality good.
is good because people take pleasure in virtue, and although it used to be a means to happines, it is now part of happiness.
On the rule utilitarian view, one should...
Never make promises.
Never keep promises no matter what.
Keep promises only when it is clear that keeping the promise in question will maximize utility.
Always keep promises because always keeping promises will bring more pleasure than sometimes breaking promises.
In lecture it was argued that in the final analysis Rule Utilitarianism
None of the below.
Was able to head off the problem raised by the Innocent Stranger thought experiment.
Was not able to head off the problem raised by the Innocent Stranger thought experiment.
Demonstrated beyond all doubt that Snow is the good.