Three Objections to Utilitarianism

Three objections to utilitarianism are connected with the idea of Great Happiness Principle upon which utilitarianism depends so heavely. If the nowadays utilitarianism agree with the idea that neither the absence of general account of what constitutes happiness, nor the existence of differences in what makes human beings happy, then there is a substantial difficulty for utilitarianism to explain what, actually, the happiness means. The theory also requires that it be measurable. Even if we distinguish between pleasure and happiness, we still find that making comparisons of degrees of happiness is something we do all the time, say utilitarians. And if such comparisons can be, and regularly are made, there is no reason why they should not be represented by the use of numbers.…