There are moments in a text we call “centers of gravity” that carry the weight of the idea and are like the most important parts to read carefully and understand well. What centers of gravity do you see in what we read from John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism? Choose TWO. Two sentences (or maybe a half a sentence– he writes long sentences!), from two different parts in the text (not right next to each other, two different bits) that present the key ideas that you learned from this reading.
1. Choose two centers of gravity from the text Utilitarianism.
2. For each one, type out the quotation (in quotation marks) and add a page number so we can all refer back to it.
3. For each one, explain in your own words, in 2-3 sentences, what that part of the text means.
Together, we’ll build up an inventory of important parts in the text and collect all the key pieces of Mill’s theory of Utilitarianism. We’ll put them together next class!
