Posted: April 15th, 2015

MORALITY AND JUSTICE

MORALITY AND JUSTICE

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580 PART FIVE: THE CLAIMS OF MORALITY AND JUSTICE
up for utility, as the test of right and wrong, use the
term in that restricted and merely colloquial sense
in which utility is opposed to pleasure. An apology
is due to the philosophical opponents of utilitarianism
for even the momentary appearance of confounding
them with anyone capable of so absurd a
misconception, which is the more extraordinary, inasmuch
as the contrary accusation, of referring
every thing to pleasure, and that, too, in its grossest
form, is another of the common charges against
utilitarianism, and, as has been pointedly remarked
by an able writer, the same sort of persons, and often
the very same persons, denounce the theory “as
impracticably dry when the word ‘utility’ precedes
the word ‘pleasure,’ and as too practicably voluptuous
when the word ‘pleasure’ precedes the word.
‘utility.'” Those who know any thing about the
matter are aware that every writer from Epicurus
to Bentham who maintained the theory of utility
meant by it, not something to be contradistinguished
from pleasure, but pleasure itself, together
with exemption from pain, and, instead of opposing
the useful to the agreeable or the ornamental, have
always declared that the useful means these, among
other things. Yet the common herd, including the
herd of writers, not only in newspapers and period-
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