Utilitarianism
- Created by: Harry Jordan
- Created on: 06-04-14 22:05
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- Utilitarianism
- Arguments
- eliminates personal preference
- presumes human well-being is intrinsically good
- Democratic - Majority rule
- circumstances justified without resorting to precedent
- fails to represent minority rights
- human rights infringed
- majority are not always right
- single principles can't apply to all moral decision
- reduces people to a number
- Ignores God
- human life is not equal
- justifies atrocities
- Scholars
- John Stuart Mill
- wanted to improve utilitarianism
- higher and lower pleasures
- "better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied"
- wanted to improve utilitarianism
- H Sidgwick
- "How can you distinguish between 2 higher pleasures?"
- Jeremy Bentham
- "greatest good for the greatest number"
- Ross
- "life is too complex for a single theory"
- Williams
- "a person's identity is bound in their morality"
- P Singer
- unreasonable for one's higher pleasure to have less value than another's
- Sandel
- Queen vs Dudley and Stephens
- Kant
- Deontolgical
- John Stuart Mill
- Key Words
- Hedonic Calculus - Measure of happiness
- Free from pain?
- certainty of happiness?
- near / remote?
- likely to lead to further pleasure?
- how far reaching?
- temporary / permanent?
- deep / superficial?
- a priori
- knowledge before experience
- a posterori
- knowledge after experience
- Hedonic Calculus - Measure of happiness
- Arguments
- Rule utilitarianism
- John Stuart Mill
- wanted to improve utilitarianism
- higher and lower pleasures
- "better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied"
- wanted to improve utilitarianism
- John Stuart Mill
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