Utilitarianism

The English philosopher John Stuart Mill was one of the great philosophical thinkers of the modern era; his major contribution was his analysis and defense of utilitarianism - an ethical philosophy that is summarized best by Mill as, "Actions are right to the degree that they tend to promote the greatest good for the greatest number."

In one of his essays, Mill states that people "lose their high aspirations as they lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not time or opportunity for indulging them; and they addict themselves to inferior pleasures, not because they deliberately prefer them, but because they are either the only ones to which they have access or the only ones which they are any longer capable of enjoying." Basically, people become content with their lack of education and decide to not pursue higher goals because they have not had the opportunity to do so.

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