In Mill's essay on utilitarianism, Mill observes that many people misunderstand utilitarianism by associating utility and pleasure in the same idea and the same concept. In fact, Mill says that utility is described as pleasure and absence of pain. Mill observes the relationship between utilities and happiness and decides that utility could be considered the principle of greatest happiness. According to this principle, “actions are good to the extent that they tend to promote happiness, bad to the extent that they tend to produce the opposite of happiness. By happiness we mean pleasure and the absence of pain; unfortunately, pain and deprivation of pleasure. ". Pleasure and the absence of pain are the only things that people wish to acquire and maintain. Therefore, events and situations are only desirable if they are a source of pleasures, if they are a source of happiness; these actions in the face of events are only good when they lead to a higher level of happiness, and bad when they decrease this level After this, Mill returns to the idea that it is degrading to humans to say that. the meaning of life ...