ETHICS Flashcards
A theory of morality that advocate actions that foster happiness or pleasure and oppose actions that cause unhappiness or harm
Utiliarinism
We ought to perform actions which tend to produce greatest overall happiness for the greatest number of people
Greatest Happiness Principle
Both provided exemptions to the inviolability of the right to privacy in instances of treason, espionage and rebellion
RA.4200( Anti Wire Tapping Law) Or Human Security Actbof 2007
This means that pleasure is goid and that the goodness of action is determined by its ?
Usefulness
Ulitarianism claims that one’s actions and behaviornare good inasmuch as they are directed toward the experience of the greatest pleasure over?___for the greatest number of persons
Pain
“Utility” which thereby refers to the consequences ofnactions and behavior as useful
“Utility” is the?
To promote the “ good” or to prevent harm
Usefulness or moral rightness
Who quotes “the good is simplely pleasure”
Jeremy Bentham
Who quotes?
“The good is happiness-a more complex notion achieved by living a principled and prudent life
John Stuart Mill
Both who were reformers concerned with political reform and franchising the populace
Bentham and Mills
Ulitarianism is an ethical theory that says the right thing to do in any situation is whatever will do the most is good
True
Ulitarianism is part of a larger family of ?
Consequentialist
The gap between the rich and the poor
Redistribution of wealth
The aim is to maximize happiness
Ulitarianism
In this book an introduction arguing that our actions are governed by two sovereign masters which he calls pleasure and pain
Principle of Moral and Legislation (1789) Jeremy Bentham
The principle of utilty recognizes this subjection and assumess it for the foundation of system, the object of which is to rear the fabric of felicity by hands of reason and law.
True
Father of Ulitarianism
Jeremy Bentham
He clarifies that what makes people happy is intended pleasure and what makes unhappy is the privation of pleasure
Was born on may 20, 1806 in Pentoville London, UK. He was the son of James Mill , a friend and diciple of Jeremy Bentham
John Stuart Mill
Explains at the length that the sentiment of justice is actually based on utilty and the right exists only because they are necessary for human happiness
Mill
Felicific calculus allow the evaluation of all actions and their resultant pleasure. In this sense, pleasure and pain can only quantitavely
True
Mill dessents from Bentham single scale of pleasure.It must distinguisy pleasure qualitatively and not merely quantitatively.
True
Ulutarianism cannot lead to?
Selfish acts
He identifies the eradication of disease, using technology, and other practical ways as example of Ulitarianism
Mill
