Moral: 1.0 Utilitarianism

Question 1

What is the hedonist act of utilitarianism?

Answer 1

-Actions are right or wrong based on their consequences ( consequentialism) alone and an act is right if it maximises what is good (happiness) .
-Happiness is understood as pleasure in the absence of pain
-Everyone happyness is of equal importance and actions are good if they lead to the greatest happiness of all those affected

Question 2

Define hedonism

Answer 2

Pleasure is happiness and the only good.

Question 3

What is the principle of utility?

Answer 3

• Defining the principle of act utilitarianism
• an action is right if it leads to the greatest happiness for all those it affects

Question 4

What is the Hedonic calculus also known as?

Answer 4

Felicific calculus

Question 5

What is the Hedonic calculus?

Answer 5

Bentham:
-Calculating the pleasures and pains caused by and action and adding them up on a single scale.
-Total amount of happiness- total amount of pain
-quatitative

Question 6

What 7 factor did Bentham use for his hedonic calculus

Answer 6

1. Intensity
2. Duration
3. Certainty
4. Propinquity
5. Fecundity
6. Purity
7. Extent

Question 7

What did Bentham mean by Intensity?

Answer 7

How intense pleasure/pain will be

Question 8

What did Bentham mean by Duration?

Answer 8

How long pleasure/pain will last

Question 9

What did Bentham mean by Propinquity?

Answer 9

How soon the pain will happen (similar to word proximity)

Question 10

What did Bentham mean by Fecundity?

Answer 10

Will it lead to more of the same ( will it lead to more pleasure/pain?)

Question 11

What did Bentham mean by Purity?

Answer 11

Will it lead to the opposite ( will the pleasure lead to pain)

Question 12

What did Bentham mean by extent?

Answer 12

How many people will be affected but the pleasure/pain