Utilitarianism
very brief content mind map of utilitarianism. Strenths, weaknesses or application arent included
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- Created on: 18-12-12 09:14
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- Utilitarianism
- Mill
- higher and lower pleasures
- some pleasures are more desirable and valuable than others
- "It is better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied"
- Lower- physical pleasures that animals can do also
- Higher- human pleasures, those that stimulate the mind
- Education allowed people to recognise and enjoy higher pleasures
- If we educate the 'brutish majority' to experience higher ppleasures, it would end the 'brutish behaviour'
- danger for Minority groups
- If we educate the 'brutish majority' to experience higher ppleasures, it would end the 'brutish behaviour'
- Education allowed people to recognise and enjoy higher pleasures
- Qualitative
- Rule Utilitarianism
- general overall rules bringing about happiness
- less flexible but gives us structure to complex society
- e.g. do not kill, bring about greatest happiness if everyone followed it
- Thought Benthams theory was too restricted
- Humans ans society was far more complex
- pleasures were not equal and human nature needed to be taken into account
- "actions are right if they promote happiness, wrong if they produce the reverse of that"
- valued self sacrifice
- increased happiness of others rewards self-sacrificer
- Golden Rule is perfect example of utilitarianism
- Happiness of others & self is paramount driving principle
- higher and lower pleasures
- Principle of Utility
- max pleasure min pain
- "Always act in such a way that you max pleasure and min pain"
- Usefulness means happiness
- "Greatest happiness of th greatest number"
- Teleological
- Consquences of action determines right/wrongness
- Free to make own choices
- Believe in a persons ability to reason, think and draw conclusions
- Bentham
- "Pushpin is of equal value to poetry, and if it furnishes more pleasure, it is more valuable"
- Quantitative
- "Swine philosophy" Thomas Carlyle
- "Happiness of everybody affected by action has to be taken into account"
- Author recieves max satisfication
- "Everybody is to count for one, nobody for more than one"
- Hedonic Calculus
- Irene Darwin Can't Read Rabbit Poetry Everyday
- Intensity Duration Certainty Richness Remoteness Purity Extent
- Act Utilitarianism
- action judged by consequeces, make moral decisions according to situation and likely consquences!
- ignore rules/laws
- Flexible
- Hedonism- what is good is pleasure
- Include all sentient beings in calculations
- Bentham calculated happiness with hedonic calculus and Mill with higher and lower pleasures
- preference utilitarianism promotes actions that fulfill the interests (preferences) of those beings involved
- Peter Singer
- Mill
- Bentham
- "Pushpin is of equal value to poetry, and if it furnishes more pleasure, it is more valuable"
- Quantitative
- "Swine philosophy" Thomas Carlyle
- "Happiness of everybody affected by action has to be taken into account"
- Author recieves max satisfication
- "Everybody is to count for one, nobody for more than one"
- Hedonic Calculus
- Irene Darwin Can't Read Rabbit Poetry Everyday
- Intensity Duration Certainty Richness Remoteness Purity Extent
- Act Utilitarianism
- action judged by consequeces, make moral decisions according to situation and likely consquences!
- ignore rules/laws
- Flexible
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