La desviación de J. S. Mill: el puesto de las emociones en el Utilitarismo.

Abstract

It is often said that utilitarianism (at least the standard version) is incapable of taking emotions into account. That being so, it is also said that it is incapable of answering (properly) to our most important moral problems, and, in fact, it becomes a useless doctrine. However, we must qualify this accusation by saying, on the one hand, that emotions play, in some way, a significant role in Bentham’s theory,
and on the other hand, that they undoubtedly play a central role in Mill’s utilitarianism. In this article we try to establish what that role is and whether the use of emotions in Mill’s theory could be seen as a kind of departure from the standard version.