How successful was J.S. Mill in overcoming the problems associated with Bentham's Utilitarianism? "The greatest good for the greatest number" is a simple way to sum up a fairly simple idea. But despite its simplicity it still has lots of problems; in this essay I will be looking at how John Stuart Mill tries to overcome these problems. In 1789 utilitarianism was born, the brainchild of Jeremy Bentham. Bentham was a hedonist or someone who …showed first 75 words of 1143 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1143 total…olding the law rather than the lower pleasure of not being mobbed. But as for the other problems, they are left unsolved, as still happiness is regarded as the only value with which to make moral decisions, still there are no absolute values, and an ability of being able to see into the future is still required. But other than that JS Mill has managed to solve the two major problems with Bentham's utilitarianism.