Abstract:

Beneficiality, which is one of the modern moral theories and is widespread in the Western world, is a happy moral understanding that is considered a standard of pleasure. It appears to be attractive for many people to formulate its beneficial behavior as an action that will provide great happiness. But the questions by the thinkers shade the attraction of utility and show that the sense of useful happiness contains many problems. These questions show that the concepts of happiness and pleasure do not have sufficient clarity in guiding individuals as a moral principle. The essence of this article consists in the discussion of the main arguments of the founders of classical utility, Jeremy Bentham and John StuartMill, and the criticism of various thinkers against these arguments.Classical utility has tried to reduce ethics to a simple rule and a single concept, but this effort has led to some problems. Because morality is multi-dimensional, it cannot be reduced to a single concept such as happiness or pleasure. On the other hand, happiness is not a situation that can be achieved by a simple calculation, as it will be seen in this study.

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