Utilitarianism

• Rich people derive less benefit from extra money than poor people
• Giving money to the poor adds to the total of wellbeing than giving it to rich people does
• May therefore favour sending money to the poor
• Person should do the most good they can with this money
• Bentham

  • social reformer
  • 'all inequality is a source of evil'
• What do both Bentham and Mill agree on?

  the redistribution of wealth is permitted and even necessary for the welfare of all
• Mill

  • money is desired not the for the sake of an end but as part of the end
  • A principal ingredient of the individual's conception of happiness
• The more an individual has of a particular good, such as money or nice clothes, the less they benefit from having even more of it