This week I read John Stuart Mill’s “Utilitarianism” for my online class. “Utilitarianism” is a manifesto that attempts to address the criticisms of Jeremy Bentham’s Greatest Happiness Principle. In the essay Mill talks about how to rationalize utilitarianism with the need for justice in society. First, he defines justice as the desire to punish someone responsible for violating the rights of others, and a right as something that society defends you in the possession of. The reading was very dense, but pretty interesting at times, and particularly the parts about justice. One thing that I noticed was that Mill often defines things cyclically so that his definitions rely on each other (ex the ones that I mentioned).