Duty
Man’s nature as a social being, Mill contends, tends to make him feel it one of his natural wants that there should be harmony between his feelings and aims and those of his fellow creatures.
This conviction, in those who have it, doesn’t seem to them a superstition of education or a despotic law imposed by society, but as an attribute valued to possess and are at a loss without. This conviction, born not of an internal sense of obligation or fear of external sanctions imposed by a superior power, is, by Mill, the ultimate sanction of the greatest happiness of morality- the goal the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
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