Just reading Utilitarianism for an ethics paper. I love philosophy, but this is fucking dry. I'd rather be reading Hume, Kant or even Descartes. Mill is far too wordy.
Just reading Utilitarianism for an ethics paper. I love philosophy, but this is fucking dry. I'd rather be reading Hume, Kant or even Descartes. Mill is far too wordy.
Mill is pretty legit and easy to understand because he is a philosophy robot.
That's part of my problem with him - he writes for maximum comprehension, and makes it long and simplistic. If he wrote more technically you could fly through this instead of wading.
Of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy
Was particularly ill
i absolutely fucking hate reading philosophy
Hume is garbage, Mill is brilliant but Utilitarnisim is an utter failure, Kant doesn't get near enough credit and Descartes is the king of "modern philosophy."
Too bad for all of them that Plato was and will always be light years ahead .
That's part of my problem with him - he writes for maximum comprehension, and makes it long and simplistic. If he wrote more technically you could fly through this instead of wading.
Not surprising that a guy who espoused utilitarianism would be both parts epically brilliant and dull.
The thesis for your paper should be: "John Mill sucks balls and stuff."