Discussion
"Each person's happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness, therefore, is good to the aggregate of all persons" is the view upheld by :
Answer: A
The view is J. S. Mill's.
This is Mill's 'proof' of the principle of utility in chapter 4 of Utilitarianism (1863): each person desires his own happiness, so happiness is a good to him, and the general happiness is therefore a good to the aggregate of all persons. Critics charge it with the fallacy of composition.
Bentham founded utilitarianism on the felicific calculus, Sidgwick defended it through rational intuition, and Kant rejected happiness as the ground of morality.
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