... is promoting the greatest happiness for her/his self. John Stuart Mill's standard is the, "Greatest Happiness Principle." This principle holds that actions are right in proportion, as they tend to promote happiness or pleasure and wrong as they promote the opposite of happiness (*utilitarianism 1104). This principle means that the action that creates the larger amount of happiness or pleasure is the correct action. For example, to use the same situation as stated earlier, a person has three pieces of candy s/he can either eat all three pieces or share with two friends. Now either action is acceptable but to share the candy will make more people happy than all three pieces being eaten by the owner. According to the, "Greatest Happiness Principle," sharing the candy is the correct action, because it allows for the good to be distributed among the greatest number of people. After a brief review of ...

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