Utilitarianism
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- Created on: 08-12-15 09:32
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- Utilitarianism
- Rule Utilitarianism- John Stuart Mill
- Background
- Other languages at 5
- Fluent in greek at 3
- Completed classical education by 14
- The son of a friend and follower of Bentham
- suffered a nervous breakdown at 20
- Ideas
- Believed that justice truth and love were good regardless whether they were wanted or not
- "It is better to a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied"
- Believed that Bentham had never really suffered
- he accepted the utility principle of the greatest good for the greatest number
- Believed happiness was to simplistic
- But he did not think you needed a special calculus
- Theory
- However, once rules are established it becomes inflexible
- Good because it takes care of some of the problems
- Divided this into strong and weak rules. weak have expectations strong do not
- Follow the rule which produces greatest good if everyone follows it
- The Harm Principle
- The only time power can be exercised over any member of a civilised community against his will is to prevent harm to others
- Focuses on general rules that everyone should follow to bring about the greatest good for the community
- Background
- Act Utilitarianism- Jeremy Betham
- Strengths & Weaknesses
- Strengths
- Natural to consider consequense
- You can judge each situation individually
- dangerous minority are not allowed to dominate
- Untitled
- Balanced
- Weaknesess
- Some pain can be good
- Could be seen as injust
- no one
- No credit to motivation
- Untitled
- Depends on accurate predictions
- Difficult to measure pleasure
- Strengths
- Henondic Calculus
- Propinquity-how near or remote it is
- certainty- how sure are we it will happen
- Fecundity- how likely it will lead to more pleasure
- duration- how temporary and permement it is
- Extent- how far will happiness spread
- Intenisty- how deep or superficial it is
- Theory
- Jeremy was a henodist
- Jeremy saw the hardships of this period and wanted to produce a theory to help
- Alcholism
- Prostituion
- Child labour
- Homelessnes
- He produce a teleological theory
- Strengths & Weaknesses
- Rule Utilitarianism- John Stuart Mill
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