utilitarianism mind map
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- Created on: 12-04-14 12:31
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- utilitarianism
- firstly was founded by bentham (principle of utility) and then later developed by mill and other philosophers
- as a whole tries to decide whether an action is good or bad by its benefits for the majority of people
- it is a teleological approach which looks at the consequence s
- it is the consequences of an action that decides whether it is a good or bad
- benthams utilitarianism
- principle of utility greatest good for the greatest amount of people
- morality wasnt based on god but based on the authority of nature. specifically on the belief that moral good equals pleasure and the absence of pain
- happiness = pleasure -pain
- the hedonic calculus was a way of measuring pleasure and the consequences of an action
- hedonic calculus; purity (no pain after) remoteness (how near/far it is) intensity(how certain the pleasure is) extent (how many it affects) duration(how long it lasts and finally fecindity (will it provide more pleasure
- mills utilitarianism
- ignores the hedonic calculus
- made higher and lower pleasures
- made minorities more apparent
- stressed happiness more than pleasure
- qualitative approach
- better to be socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied
- higher pleasures=mind lower pleasure=body
- what was good for one was good for all
- higher pleasures lead to progress
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