Dias, Maria Cristina Longo CardosoMonteiro, Liliane de Sousa2016-06-162021-09-202016-06-162021-09-202015-07-20MONTEIRO, Liliane de Sousa. O significado da moral para Mill. 2015. 28 f. Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Graduação) - Curso de Filosofia, Departamento de Filosofia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2015. CD-ROM.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/34591The aim of this work is to explain Mill’s concept of morality. In order to comprehend this notion it is necessary to elucidate human nature described by the author, oncethisnature grounds his ethical definition.Individualhuman nature, for Mill,comprisesa central element which is the search for pleasure and scape of pain; this notion is al so namedhedonisticthesis. This thesis is verified empirically, as well as other components of individuals such as capacity of experiencehigher quality pleasures,ability of acting by habit and capability of qualitative development over time. It will be possible to observe that individual's nature goes beyond hedonistic thesis because it possesses more elements which propitiate elaboration of secondary principles of morality.openAccessJohn Stuart MillMoralityMoralEthicsÉticaUtilitarianismUtilitarismoHuman NatureNatureza HumanabachelorThesis