Principle of Utility
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- Principle of Utility
- Two Sovereign masters.
- Pain and Pleasure. They govern us in all we do, all we say and all we think.
- Every living creature uses the principle to order their own actions.
- Pain and Pleasure. They govern us in all we do, all we say and all we think.
- Choosing an action that maximises pleasure over pain for all parties involved.
- The principle isn't subject to any direct proof- it cannot be proved for that which is used to prove everything else cannot itself be proved. It's impossible and needless.
- By utility it's meant the something that works to produce something we want/are aiming for. Produces pleasure.
- NOTE: for objects and actions to have utility, we must have goals and desires in the first place.
- The community.
- A fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting.
- The people who are affected by the action.
- A fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting.
- The danger of alternate principles:
- Antinomianism- individuals would become the own judges, it would be anarchy
- Two Sovereign masters.
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