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Pleasure from the Perspective of… A. Ghanbarian & A. Asgari Yazdi (129

render the object of its increase the overall
application, and disapproving happiness to be wasted.

of them in as far as they The only kind of
tend to increase it. abandonment of worldly
(Bentham, 2017: 10-11) pleasures this doctrine

accepts is self-sacrifice for
Later, Mill accepted the the sake of happiness or
principle to some extent by some other means of
acknowledging some ethical happiness for others,

rules so as not to fall into the whether it be humanity as a
pitfalls of utilitarianism: whole or a group of

In this dilemma, utilitarians specific individuals within
cannot say that the the framework of the limits
morality of self-sacrifice is and requirements set by the
as important in the realm collective interests of

of influence and related to humanity. (Mill, 2010: 73)
them as it is to aristocrats
or elites. Utilitarian ethics Analyzing the content, two

recognizes the power of general attitudes toward pleasure
humans in sacrificing their have emerged: Some schools
greatest possessions for the of thought prescribe

benefit of others and abstaining from pleasure and
acknowledges it. What it denies rejecting it; While others
is that self-sacrifice is a prioritize and seek pleasure.

good thing in and of itself. In Islam, a moderate
Utilitarianism considers approach has been accepted;
the sacrifice that does not pleasures are not generally