Utilitarianism quotes Flashcards
1
Q
Bentham on what drives human beings
A
” Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pleasure and pain”
2
Q
Act util
A
“the rightness or wrongness of an act is calculated by the amount of happiness from each individual act”
3
Q
Mill on Q vs Q
A
‘Happiness is most effectively gained when individuals are free to pursue their own ends’
4
Q
Mill socrates
A
“Better to be socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied’
5
Q
Mill on pleasure
A
‘People tend to pursue bodily pleasures, pursue sensual indulgences to the injury of healthy, aware that health is the greater good’
6
Q
What did Bentham believe?
A
pleasure was the sole good and pain the sole evil
