utilitarianism
- Created by: matildajones1
- Created on: 15-10-18 22:26
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- Utilitariansim
- consequential
- teleological
- 1. most useful end causes the most happiness/pleasure
- 2. moral goods are actions that cause the most happiness
- 3. 'The greatest happiness principle'
- 2. moral goods are actions that cause the most happiness
- Jeremy Bentham
- 'Mankind has been placed under the governance of two sovereign leaders, pain and pleasure.'
- the hedonic calculus-measurement of happiness
- Intensity
- Duration
- Certainty
- Propinquity
- Extent
- Richeness
- Purity
- Richeness
- Extent
- Propinquity
- Certainty
- Duration
- Intensity
- Swine Theory-gang **** creates the highest pleasure.
- ACT: each situation is unique-use the hedonic calculus to see if it produces the most util.
- John Stuart Mill
- Higher and lower pleasures
- Higher-intellectual
- Lower-bodily
- RULE: rules from the 'Principle of utility'. based on the past.
- STRONG: never breaks the rules
- WEAK: relativistic
- Higher and lower pleasures
- Strengths
- a democratic morality (promotes happiness)
- Clear decision making systems
- higher and lower pleasures avoids the swine theory
- it is natural to consider consiquences
- Weaknesses
- predictions could be wrong
- difficult to quantify pleasure
- happiness is subject
- some pain is good (childbirth)
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