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Utilitarianism Flashcards

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Utility

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producing, benefit advantage, pleasure or happiness

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Hedonic Calculus

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Intensity
Duration
Certainity 
Propinquity
Chances of repettion
Purity
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Act Utilitarianism

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Bentham

Individual calculations based on consequences

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Law Utilitarianism

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Mill

Following universal laws that lead to overall happiness for society

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Criticism

W. D. Ross

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“a single factor theory”

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Criticism

Bernard Williams

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Suggests that we can easily do callous things - such as steal, cheat or even murder - for the greater good

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Criticism

Louis Pojman

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Utilitarianism employs an idealised view of justice.

“Cavalier attitude to justice”

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Strengths

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Allows personal autonomy

Peter Singer - Allows animals autonomy

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Preference Utilitarianism

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Minimise suffering not increase pleasure

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10
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Mill

Higher and Lower pleasures

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Lower - please the body
Higher - please the mind

“It is better to be a human disatisfied than a pig statisfied”

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