Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Pleasure is Utility


Conclusion: Utility must be understood as the greatest amount of pleasure 

EP1: End goals are not easy to prove to be util
IP1: Utility is the optimization of usefulness
EP2: Something that is good is shown to be this way by a means that must also be good
IP2: It is not possible or easy to prove that the means is good
EP3: The good that is not an end is a means
EP4: Good ends bring pleasure
IP3: Pleasure is a means that cannot be proved as good
EP5: Accepting or rejecting that something is good cannot be arbitrary
EP6: Determining utility must have a first principle
Conclusion: Utility must be understood as the great amount of pleasure