8. Smith: The Invisible Hand
Foundations of Modern Social Thought (SOCY 151) John Stuart Mill made important and influential amendments to Bentham s ideas of utilitarianism. Perhaps most influentially, Mill states that there are not only different quantities of happiness but also qualitative differences in happiness. Humans are capable of higher forms of happiness, and therefore utility must be judged by taking into account quantitative amounts as well as qualitative differences in forms of happiness. Mill also drew a distinction be
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