Hedonic calculus Flashcards
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Purpose Of Hedonic Calculus
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Jeremy Bentham created the hedonic calculus as a tool to calculate which action you should take to produce the most amount of happiness and therefore the morally correct option
2
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Intensity
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How strongly will the pleasure or pain felt?
3
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Duration
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how long will it last?
4
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Certainty
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how likely is the pleasure to happen?
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Closeness
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how soon will the results be felt?
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Fecundity
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is it likely to be followed by more similar experiments?
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Purity
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is it likely to be followed by later experiences of the opposite kind?
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Extent
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how many people will be affected by the happiness or suffering?
