Research On Mill's Utilitarian Concept Of Happiness

The goal of a person's life struggle is happiness,and the development of human history has always centered on "happiness." The important issue of various ideologies is the pursuit of "maximum happiness," and Mill's core idea is "the greatest happiness." Although Mill's utilitarian view of happiness has been questioned numerously,Mill's utilitarian view of happiness still has a positive impact on the world.However,due to the different historical backgrounds,scholars have different perspectives of understanding,which leads us to differ in the reality of utilitarian happiness and Mill's utilitarian view of happiness.There are many ways to understand the utilitarian view of happiness.Whether it is a way of returning to practice and reconstruction,or a way of theoretical innovation and overall research,there is a precondition for returning to the text of Mill's utilitarian view of happiness.Looking for the theoretical theme of Mill's utilitarian view of happiness."Maximum happiness" is the theme of Mill's utilitarian view of happiness.Therefore,the "maximum happiness" as the core content,combined with the concept of freedom and justice to understand the utilitarian view of happiness.The first part of the article focuses on the analysis of the intellectual origins of Mill's utilitarian view of happiness,from which it summarizes and sorts out the ideas of Miller's utilitarian view of happiness,which are influenced by the views of the thinkers,and which ideological elements are borrowed.The second part of the article chooses to discuss the basic connotation of Mill's utilitarian view of happiness from four aspects,through the concept of happiness of Mill's utilitarian view of happiness,the principle of "maximum happiness",the theory of utilitarian happiness;The spirit of altruism;conscientious and emotional constraints;from these four aspects to demonstrate the basic connotation of happiness,so that the idea of Mill's happiness is clearly displayed.The third part of the article from freedom is the cornerstone of achieving "the greatest happiness";justice is the means to achieve the greatest happiness,"representative government" is the external guarantee of happiness realization;from these three aspects to analyze the theoretical conception of Mill's utilitarianism happiness.The fourth part of the article mainly analyzes the contribution and limitations of Mill's utilitarian view of happiness,affirms the rational part of Mill's utilitarian happiness theory,and further discusses the inheritance and development of Mill's utilitarian happiness to the system of happiness,to Mill.The utilitarian view of happiness is pointed out in the argumentation method and the limitations are analyzed.Combining with real life,this paper explores the contemporary enlightenment of Mill's utilitarian view of happiness.