Question
Explain the fundamental differences between the quantitative utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham and the qualitative utilitarianism of J.S. Mill.
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Jeremy Bentham and J. S. Mill both defended utilitarianism, maintaining that the morality of actions depends upon their consequences and that the right action is the one that promotes the greatest happiness of the greatest number. Yet they differed significantly in their understanding of pleasure and in the method of evaluating it. Bentham’s utilitarianism is quantitative because he regarded all pleasures as fundamentally alike, differing only in quantity. According to him, the moral worth of an action can be assessed by calculating the amount of pleasure and pain it produces through criteria such as intensity, duration, certainty, propinquity, fecundity, purity, and extent. In this view, a simple physical pleasure
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