UTLITARIANISM
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- Created on: 21-02-13 13:57
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- Utilitarianism
- Rule
- John Stuart Mill
- Usefullness of a general rule in determing the amount of good it brings
- Qualitative
- Higher and Lower Pleasures
- Physical pleasures and below pleasures of the mind
- Physical needs Body; Intellect needs body & mind
- Genreal Rule to Specific Action
- Once rules are established society is obliged to follow them
- Act
- Jeremy Bentham
- The Priniciple of Utility
- Usefullness of an action
- happiness linked to pleasure and not pain.
- Moral Acts = Maximise pleausre - minimise pain
- Quantitative
- Hedonic Calculus
- PRRICED
- Purity; Remotness; Richeness; Intensity; Certainty; Extent; Duration
- PRRICED
- Gives dignity to peoples happiness
- Teleological
- A teleological theory that uses the outcome of an action to determine if its good or bad
- Demands we make difficult decisions
- Relative
- Preference
- Peter Singer
- Good and Bad depends on persons interests
- Each persons experience of satisfaction is unique
- Action opposite to preference is wrong
- Maximise satisfaction of peoples preference
- Rule
- Demands we make difficult decisions
- A teleological theory that uses the outcome of an action to determine if its good or bad
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