... why prostitution should be legalized. Devlin was a legal moralist, he believed in a strong moral code, and he insisted that law should be used to prohibit behaviour that conflicts with dominate morality. Devlin sought to seek a contemporary society , which in a city-state is problematic due to different interpretations and opinions. Devlin believed without law restricting behaviour that is looked down upon, ... to the feelings of ordinary people. If certain behaviour suggests feelings of intolerance, and disgust among ordinary members of society, that is a sufficient indication that the...

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... us. It is based upon this belief that he has created the moral theory of utilitarianism. First he explains consequentialism, which is the idea that morality of actions should be judged based on the consequences of those actions. So, an action that produces most "good" would be considered as the ... have to consider the good of others, we could be confident in the fact that they were also considering our good. Mill is able to reduce morality to scientific fact. Certain things are right, and others wrong, according to some quantifiable measure of "aggregate happiness." He asserts that scie...

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... a political philosophy and as a result is applied in relation to the common good or the greatest good. Utility did away with universal norms of morality and made a balance system that said one ought to do what has the most pleasurable results and lesser proportion of painful consequences. Jeremy Bentham was ... and least amount of pain. "By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure" (7). Morality for Mill is based on human desires since the only real intrinsic good is man's desire for pleasure or satisfactions. "Pleasure ...

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