John Stuart Mill explains that all action is for the sake of some end, and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient. When describing the Greatest Happiness Principle, Mill explains that it is the creed which accepts as the foundation of morals “utility” holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they …showed first 75 words of 481 total…

…showed last 75 words of 481 total…utility is not only not a Godless doctrine, but more profoundly religious than any other. If it be meant that utilitarianism does not recognize the revealed will of God as the supreme law of morals, I answer that a utilitarian who believes in the perfect goodness and wisdom of God necessarily believes that whatever God has thought fit to reveal on the subject of morals must fulfill the requirements of utility in a supreme degree.