<p>Is anyone here good at Philosophy?</p>
<p>queue nspeds in 3...2...1....</p>
<p>Yeah where is that user when you need him or her.</p>
<p>Anybody??????</p>
<p>Anybody??????????? Desperate times call for desperate measures. Anybody was Aristotle a utilitarian?</p>
<p><a href="http://utilitarianism.com/aristotle.html%5B/url%5D">http://utilitarianism.com/aristotle.html</a></p>
<p>Yes but as noted Aristotle never used the word utility. So does that make him a utilitarian. I came across this site in my research but other sites offer conflicting reports. So what is it?</p>
<p>no. he is one of the founding father's of the theory of virtue ethics.</p>
<p>But doesn't this conflict the statments on the stanford website?</p>
<p>I would say no as well. Aristotle's name is strongly connected to rational eudaimonism - one can reach happiness by means of wisdom. An utilitarian, J. S. Mill for instance, would say that an action is moral/good as long as it is useful; thus actions are measured on the basis of how much pleasure or how little pain they produce, so as to attain happiness. This is hedonism.
Eudaimonism and hedonism make up teleological ethics. So... they have a common basis (happiness as a goal), but are different things.</p>
<p>Aristotle: happiness = rational/moral way of living
Mill: happiness = pleasure (which comes from the right actions)</p>
<p>I hope the English terms are correct (I studied all these things in Romanian).</p>
<p><a href="http://utilitarianism.com/aristotle.html%5B/url%5D">http://utilitarianism.com/aristotle.html</a></p>
<p>That link is ridiculous. According to that website utility and eudaimonia are the same thing?!?!?!</p>