Episode 5, Utilitarianism (Part II)
The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast
Jack Symes | Andrew Horton, Oliver Marley, and Rose de Castellane
4.8 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2016
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Bentham, Mill and banter… The file size is large, please be patient whilst the podcast buffers/downloads/measures the pleasure and pain it may cause. In this three-part special, we take an insightful and fun-filled look at Utilitarianism. Follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/thepanpsychist. Links to all the reading can be found at www.thepanpsychist.com/panpsycast. Part I. Bentham and Utilitarianism (start of EP1) Part II. John Stuart Mill and Utilitarianism (start of EP2), Part III. Preference Utilitarianism (EP2, 43:15), Part IV. Further discussion and analysis (start of EP3). The voices in this episode are owned by Jack Symes, Andrew Horton and Ollie Marley. Thank you again for all of your support.
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| 0:00.0 | Pan |
| 0:02.0 | Psychcast |
| 0:04.0 | Part 2 |
| 0:07.0 | John Stuart Mill and Utilitarianism |
| 0:13.0 | In a world where men act as pigs |
| 0:17.0 | One man who could speak Greek from the age of three and spoke Latin from the age of six, |
| 0:23.6 | and was an established logician from the age of 12, worked on major treaties for philosophy and government at the age of 16, |
| 0:31.6 | had an emotional breakdown at the age of 20. |
| 0:35.6 | Now he's back and he's got rules. |
| 0:39.3 | Follow J.S. Mill, writing |
| 0:41.3 | Unlimited, The Subjection |
| 0:43.3 | of Women and Utilitarianism. |
| 0:46.5 | Join Harriet Taylor, his wife, |
| 0:49.1 | and critic. |
| 0:50.4 | J.S. Mill |
| 0:51.6 | is The Ut utilitarian. |
| 0:59.0 | So our inquiry question for this section is how did John Stuart Mill develop Bentham's utilitarianism? |
| 1:06.0 | Bentham became a friend of James Mill in 1808 when John Stuart Mill was just two years old. For 10 years, |
| 1:11.8 | the Mill family spent part of every summer with the Bentham's. Mill's autobiography gives a moving |
| 1:16.3 | account of the education he enjoyed or suffered at the hands of his father and on his nervous |
| 1:20.9 | breakdown which followed. Mill's utilitarianism is one of the best known of all philosophical texts. |
| 1:26.7 | Any student of philosophy and almost any |
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