Mills Vs. Hospers

“Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.”(Mill). When Mill speaks of happiness, he doesn’t just mean the happiness of the person acting, but instead everyone that is affected by the action. This requires us to maximize the total amount of happiness and to minimize the happiness of the

Hospers and Mills both have different ideas of how life should be lived. There are different ideas and thoughts that both of them have concerning the choices one should make. If I were going to go into a burning building and save one thousand lives, I would be living up to Mills moral theory but not to Hospers. However, if I were to save myself, then I would be living up to Hospers moral theory in such a way that I am living my life as I choose. Although, I am interfering with the choices of the thousands of people that want or expect to be saved from the burning building. Exacting restitution is one of Hospers moral theory, and according to Mill’s moral theory, this is one aspect of the differing moral theories that actually agrees with the other. Meaning, both Hospers and Mills moral theories believe that for both the greater good and individual choices, the use of force is permitted to achieve both outcomes.

Hospers says; each person has the right to live life as they choose, as long as they do not interfere with the choices of other human beings to live the life as they choose. If I were to build a fence in my backyard and it was twenty feet tall and my neighbor likes to look at the scenery without a fence blocking their view, I would be interfering with his choice to live as he chooses. Abortionists believe since the fetus is not a living thing, the mother has the right to choose. This choice fits under Hospers moral theory because the mother is maki

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