utilitarianism (unfinished)
- Created by: Patrick Thomas
- Created on: 25-04-13 11:55
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- Utilitarianism
- What is it?
- The greatest good for the greatest number.
- Teleological theory, considers the consequences of an action.
- Jeremy Bentham
- First thinker of utilitarianism, wanted to develop an ethical theory that considered the benefits for the largest party of people.
- Considers the pleasure that an action causes, or what the Greeks called Eudaimonia.
- The most moral acts are those that maximise pleasure and minimise pain.
- Found a way of measuring the relationship of pleasure and pain - the Hedonic Calculus.
- Has 7 elements: intensity; duration; certainty; remoteness; chance of succession of pleasures; how secure; extent of pleasure (how universal).
- John Stuart Mill
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