Utilitarisnism
- Created by: Joel Rigby
- Created on: 03-12-20 17:14
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- Utiltariansim
- Hedonic Calculus
- Propquinity
- Certainty or uncertainty
- Fecundity
- Duration
- Purity
- Intensity
- Extent
- Jeremy Bentham wanted to find a way of doing ethics that did not rely on rules or the Church and that would help social reform.
- Rule Utilitarianism
- Focus is on the 'common good' rather than on each individual action
- Greatest happiness for the greatest number of people for the long run
- Considers what is best for society
- Rule utilitarians recognise rules need to exist
- Mill
- Act Utilitarianism
- Each action is considered its own
- Balance of pleasure and pain
- Avoids setting up rules
- No duty to adopt
- Bentham
- The ethical idea that we should always seek to achieve the greatest balance of good over evil.
- Preference Utilitarianism
- Singer
- It should not always be pleasure over pain
- Further the preference of those affected
- Values actions that fulfil the greatest amount of personal interest
- Hedonic Calculus
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