Critical Upraisal of Rawl’s Utilitarianism

One answer to the problem of distribution of social resources, which dominated the political theory for about three centuries had been provided by utilitarianism which considers utility i.e. the greatest good of the greatest number as the sole origin, justification and criterion of justice. More specifically, by the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question- if the party be the community in general, then the happiness of the community. If the tendency of an action to increase the happiness of the community (in so far as they are concerned in it is greater than any tendency it has to diminish it, then it is "conformable to the principle of utility". One may then say that it is a right action (one that ought to be done), or at least that it is not a wrong action. Rawl’s theory of utilitarianism will be critically disused in this research paper.