Will, Utilitarianism, Asceticism

A significant limitation of Utilitarianism is exposed in a comparison with Nietzsche's criticism of Asceticism. While Nietzsche can argue that an incorporeal ideal is the product of merely minimal Will to Power, Mill has no response to Asceticists who assert that a 'kingdom of heaven' is the unique realization of the 'greatest happiness for the greatest number' Utilitarian principle, nor, seemingly, is any Consequentialist doctrine capable of such a response. In contrast, a Eudaimonism based on the concept of Pleasure proposed here, i. e. that it is the feeling of Will, is irreducible to the a priori supernaturalistic Morality that Mill seems keen to challenge.