Mill 10/24

"Questions of ultimate ends are not amenable to direct proof" (184)

I wholeheartedly agree with Mill! Questions of morality are impossible to answer with the typical reference to either science or logic, we must instead rely on anthropological and sociological observations and tendencies, which Mill alludes to:

"Whatever can be proved to be good, must be so by being shown to be a means to something admitted to be good without proof." (184)

What Mill is saying is that we can only make moral conclusions based on a set of basic assumptions, which is how he goes about disproving earlier moralists. While this is fine in theory, you are making another assumption about your assumptions, namely that your assumptions are correct and everyone else is wrong.