Utilitarianism
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- Created on: 09-04-14 20:19
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- Utilitarianism
- Consequentialist
- "Greatest good for the greatest number"
- Teleological
- End justifies the means
- Bentham
- Opened UCL through his beliefs
- Worked in social reform prisons and hospitals
- Was a Hedonist
- Hedonic calculus
- Happiness = pleasure - pain
- How deep/long/ certain/near/ secure
- Quantitative
- Can pleasure be calculated? Are all pleasures equal?
- Hedonic calculus
- Act Ultilitarianism
- Relative
- John Stuart Mill
- Quality is more important than quantity
- Rule Utilitarianism
- Absolute
- "Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied"
- Higher plesaures: mind
- Lower pleasures: body
- Hare, Singer, Brandt
- Preference Utilitarianism
- Judges right/wrong based on what's best for the individual involved
- Singer: there should be an impartial spectator to moderate decisions
- Preference Utilitarianism
- Bentham
- Opened UCL through his beliefs
- Worked in social reform prisons and hospitals
- Was a Hedonist
- Hedonic calculus
- Happiness = pleasure - pain
- How deep/long/ certain/near/ secure
- Quantitative
- Can pleasure be calculated? Are all pleasures equal?
- Hedonic calculus
- Act Ultilitarianism
- Relative
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