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John Stuart Mill's moral theory, like that of his predecessor Jeremy Bentham, was utilitarian; in other words, it held that the goal of all human action should be to maximize happiness, i.e. pleasure. In Mill's view, morality consists in producing the greatest good for the most people. There was an added complexity to the computation in that Mill distinguished between various qualities of pleasure; pleasures of higher quality, in his view, are to be accounted as preferable.

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