... than a pig satisfied" (P. 15). According to the utilitarian principles, Mill also claims that it is the result of an action that counts rather than the motive of an action or the morality of the person who does the action. Meaning that to know whether an action is "right" or "wrong", one needs to calculate if the result of the action consequently increased the happiness of the majority of the people. For example, he states, "a sacrifice which ... explains his theory. He believes that, "happiness is a certain sort of activity of the soul in accord with virtue" (P. 12). By "the soul," Ari...

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