Utilitarianism

Question 1

found in the writing of two english philosophers

Answer 1

Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill

Question 2

this ethical doctrine states that the rightness and wrongness of actions is determined by goodness and badness of their actions

Answer 2

Utilitarianism

Question 3

it emphasizes on the pleasure or happiness a person can get from doing an act or from a particular course of action

Answer 3

Hedonist Morality

Question 4

If an act produces pleasure, it is considered good; if it results to pain, it is considered wrong or bad

Answer 4

Hedonist Morality

Question 5

it claims that there is one and only one moral principle

Answer 5

The Principle of Utility

Question 6

“Actions are good insofar as they tend to promote happiness, bad as they tend to produce unhappiness”

Answer 6

The Principle of Utility

Question 7

bentham and nill, bent on getting rid of any strain of individualism and subjectivisim, gave an alternative formulation of the utilitarian utility principle

Answer 7

The Greatest Happiness Principle