Keywords Flashcards
1
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Principle of utility/greatest happiness
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The idea that the choice that brings about the greatest good for the greatest number is the right choice.
2
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Deontological
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Ethics focused on the rightness and wrongness of actions
3
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Hedonic calculus
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The system for calculating the amount of pain ot pleasure generated
4
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Consequentialism
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ethical theories that see morality as driveen by the consequences, rather than actions or character of those converned.
5
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Hedonisitic
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Pleasure-driven
6
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Quantitative
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Focused on quantity
7
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Qualitive
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Focused on quality
(what kind of thing)
8
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Act utilitatian
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Weighs up what to do at each individual occasion
9
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Rule utilitarian
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Weighs up what to do in principle in all occasions of a certain kind
