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Principle of Utility
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Measure of the usefulness that an action may have
2
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for utilitarianism the principle of utility
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The greatest happiness for the greatest number
3
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a teleological ethical theory
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the basis for judging the morality of an action is the result or consequences it is likely to yeild
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Bentham was motivated by a desire to establish what?
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A universal theory that could be applied to all ethical situations
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He sought a theory out ethics that would?
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Iron out the deep inequalities of his time
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Eighteenth century England was experiencing radical social changes
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industrial revolution
- appalling working + living conditions
- prison reform
- abolition of slavery
