Ethics - Utilitarianism

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The sovereign masters are...
Pain and pleasure
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What is the fundamental axiom?
The greatest happienss of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong
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What is the principle of utility?
Whatever is most useful is good, usefulness is meausured by how much happiness is cause by and action
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What are the 'R' variables in the hedonic calculus?
Remoteness (how far the resulting pain/ pleasure is) and Richness (if it will lead to further pleasure)
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What does purity mean in the hedonic calculus?
How free from pain the action is
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A group of people is hiding from a murderer. They have a crying baby with them and the only way to quieten it is to kill it. Would a utilitarian, using the hedonic calculus kill the baby to save the group or let it live until murdered with the group?
A utilitarian would likely kill the baby
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Who Introduced preference utilitarianism (the idea that some have more value over others e.g. a doctor should be saved over a criminal)?
Peter Singer
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Who created 'rule utilitarianism'
Mill
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