Utilitarianism QUOTES Flashcards
31 words, Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals
“Nature has placed mankind under two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them to point out what we ought to do as well as determine what we should do.”
25 words, Jeremy Bentham, Book of Fallacies, p 392
“In every human breast, self-regarding interest is predominant over social interest; each person’s own individual interest over the interests of all other persons taken together.”
22 words, Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals
“”The community is a fictitious body,” and it is but “the sum of the interests of the several members who compose it”.”
33 words, Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals
“Prejudice apart, the game of pushpin is of equal value with the arts and sciences of music and poetry. If the game of pushpin furnishes more pleasure, it is more valuable than either.”
20 words, J.S.Mill, Utilitarianism
“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.”
40 words, J.S.Mill, Utilitarianism
“Happiness is … moments of rapture … in an existence of few and transitory pains, many and various pleasers, with a predominance of the active over the passive .. not to expect more from life than it is capable of bestowing.”
38 words, J.S.Mill, Utilitarianism
“Whatever we adopt as the fundamental principle of Morality refers to the first-order beliefs and practices about good and evil by means of which we guide our behaviour, For morality, we require subordinate principles to apply it by.”
fundamental principle =happiness is good, subordinate principles =rules.
34 words, J.S.Mill, Utilitarianism
“By the improvement of education, the feeling of unity with our fellow-creatures shall be as deeply rooted in our character, as the horror of crime is in an ordinarily well brought up young person.”
33 words, J.S.Mill, Utilitarianism
“To have a right, then, is, I conceive, to have something which society should defend me in possession of. If the objector asks why? I can give no other answer than general unity.”
22 words, J.S.Mill, Utilitarianism
“Justice is a name for certain moral requirements, which, regarded collectively, stand higher in the scale of social utility, than any others.”
25 words, J.S.Mill, Utilitarianism
“I account the justice which is grounded on utility to be the chief part, and incomparably the most sacred and binding part, of all morality.”
45 words, Bernard Williams, Utilitarianism For and Against
“Because our relation to the world is partly given by moral feelings, and by a sense of what we can or cannot “live with”, to regard those feelings … as happening outside one’s moral self is to lose one’s moral identity; to lose one’s integrity.”
29 words, Geoffrey Scarre - Is Act Utilitarianism the “Ethics of Fantasy” Journal of Oublic Philosophy, Vol 15, No 3, 1998
“Act utilitarianism seems to commit moral agents to unremitting do-gooding in which all their private projects commitments and relationships are subordinate to the goal of maximising the public good.”
15 words, J.S.Mill, Utilitarianism
“In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth we find the whole ethics of utility.”
6 words, J.L.Mackie, Inventing Right and Wrong 1977:129
“Utilitarianism is the ethics of fantasy.”
