utilitarianism

Deontology is a foundation for teleology and this is the way that we think as such as to look at the consequence or he ends justifying the means. This is the adapted view of Jeremy Bentham who wrote a deontological approach to solving problems in life such as his view of utilitarianism where the hedonic calculus instated to measure the extent of a actions worth was implemented to tell of the greatest good for the greatest number.  He divided it into seven sections fecundity duration amount extent pain pleasure and cause and this was his way of expressing the moral compass in people and the way we are to take an action into account of being a certain way. This is furthered by the teaching of eudaiomonia or flourishing as Plato accounted for the growing of a person spiritual and the being of a person in more toward the likeness of god also referenced in the Irenean theodicy. This approach tries to work to help people and govern the best good for the people that take it up.
The problem with this view is that it is a view that expressed takes too long to follow through and move into bigger circles and be processed and by the time the calculus is done it doesn’t work out there is enough time to use it and still act quickly so in some situations it is impossible. Another way of this being a bad idea is that there is a set rule that does not account for minority cases and this means that there is a fraction that causes people that are in the minority to be overlooked much like the holocaust and the Jewish minority being harmed by the majority.  An example of this is three people are in a house fire in different rooms you act to save two in the same room first as one is pregnant and ignore the other and they may die.  Jeremy Bentham was a advocate from the past for women’s rights and for animal rights and he believed that if you hit a person it hurts so you should not hit…